Word: far
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...numbers equipment, and supplies of all kinds the northern far surpassed the southern army. Nearly the whole of the southern army was American, while one third of the Federals were foreign born. Bounties and high pay aided much in enlisting Union men, while simply love of the "cause" without hope of glory or reward collected the southern troops...
...prominent in athletics, and popular in his class, - a very favorable specimen of what outsiders would call the representative Harvard type. If such a one as he could seriously speak of a "nice fellow" as cheating, in spite of your recent editorials, I should say public opinion was very far from sound...
...rest for its pre-eminence on "traditions." In how strong a position Yale is at present the readers of current comment know, with alumni on every hand crying for a new president and a new curriculum, for an abandonment of those antiquated methods which have left Yale far in the rear of these modern times...
...evil as any other New England college. The manliness evident in all departments of college life, and the maturity of Harvard men, are strong evidences that the vast majority of students would utterly scorn to make use of unfair means to gain an end which is valuable, only so far as it is genuine. While every thoughtful Harvard man will admit this last statement, there can be no doubt that cribbing is practised by many who recognize in it, the only method possible of maintaining their class rank, and that college opinion is not yet outspoken enough to stamp such...
...study, and a hard study at that, of the best works of the masters of English prose. Arnold, Shelley (letters), Fielding, Huxley and Webster may be read and studied to advantage if improvement is desired in the power of criticism, description, narration, exposition and argumentative composition. There is far too little "college reading." Our four courses are not, after all, the whole substance of a good year's work at college. But space forbids further discussion at this point. We trust, however, that the matter will soon be presented more cogently and at greater length...