Word: far
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...this need has been recognized by the college authorities, there is good reason to hope that a new boat-house will soon be built. The old house, though it satisfies in a way the wants of the members of the boat club and the various crews, is still far from complete. The shower-baths, dressing-rooms, etc., are not in a good condition, as would be expected in the boat-house of Harvard University. Seeing as we do wherein the old house is lacking, we can construct the new house on a greatly improved plan. Of course the boat club...
...what is true of the professor of moral philosopy is doubtless true also of the professors of languages, mathematics, polite literature, chemistry and other subordinate subjects - subordinate to boating. They are far too sensible, far too proficient in the science of relative values, to expect a dinner given by the students in their honor to compare with this boating dinner. Expressed in a scholarly form, their conviction in the premises would be that boating is to all other studies as 14 is to 7. As for the Yale tutors, the chances are that those level-headed devotees of knowledge...
...Goes back too far. Very slow on the recover. Doesn't start promptly on the recover and then rushes...
...Goes back too far. Wabbles less than heretofore. Must not bend wrist at full reach. Slumps a little...
...course 33, German, are complaining of the exceedingly high price of their text books, they having thus far this year invested about $5 in them. - Yale News...