Word: slow
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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deeply concern us, and control of the future, and yet that it cannot even give us the fool's paradise it promised us; at such a moment it needs some moderation not to be attacking Philistinism by storm, but to mine it through such gradual means as the slow approaches of culture. But the hard unintelligence, which is just now our bane, cannot be conquered by storm, it must be supplied and reduced by culture, by a growth in the variety, fullness, and sweetness of our spiritual life; and this end can only be reached by studying things that...
...mile run Orton, the American champion, started out too slow to catch one of the limit men, but ran a close second to the winning time...
...This includes Cameron '95 and C. Brewer '96, though the latter is not rowing with the 'varsity, but is stroking his class crew. Considerable improvement was evident on Saturday when the men rowed in good form. Waters, who rowed at No. 7 when he first came out, proved too slow for that position and has been put back at No. 5. Blake has improved in his rowing and is doing fairly good work...
Stroke is slow on the shoot, jerks at the finish, but rows long...
No.6 kicks out his slide and is slow on the catch. Time is poor but is otherwise fair...