Word: far
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...nature of a commencement part that requires stupidity, yet stupidity is the rule, not the exception in commencement parts. The facts are often scholarly, but seldom interesting. This year, however, the parts, we are told, must be interesting above all other things. The topics must be as far as possible live topics, or if this be impossible, and the old, time worn subjects be again raked up, the treatment of these subjects must be of a more interesting nature than usually falls to the lot of commencement parts. The absence of Prof. Hill, who has heretofore practically taken entire charge...
...stroke is lost at both ends, by clipping and an imperfect finish. The individual faults are as follows: bow settles at the finish; two hangs at the finish, and is thus obliged to rush down on the recover, his swing is inaccurate; three occasionally swings forward too far, and gets into a position for the catch; four meets, which weakens his finish and makes his shoot violent; six meets and settles at the finish; seven hurries the recover; stroke hangs and swings back too far...
Some idea of how far this last has been attained may be gained from the statement of the late Prof. Packard, who was counected with the college for about seventy years, and as professor for more than sixty, that in all that time there had never been a year so quiet as the last...
...derive pleasure from his contribution, and that his money is not going to an organization in which he has only a general interest, as is the case with subscriptions to the college teams. Last year the club took several very pleasant runs, even going on one occasion as far as Newburyport. This spring there will be several runs by the club, and possibly one or two long ones, where the riders will be gone a day or two. During the fall, we are well aware, there are not very many opportunities left for riding by the time a freshman finds...
...analytical fiction, for life is by no means so simple a matter as analysis would seem to show. And so it is with an added pleasure that we find here a tale whose very remoteness has a distinct charm in that it brings before us moods and motives as far removed from our everyday lives as is darkness from light...