Word: unperfect
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Dates: during 1886-1886
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...have not been trained to recognize the purely artistic and gentlemanly side of such a contest, are, in their ignorance, very likely to deem it merely a brutal pounding match. And, however unfortunate this condition of things may be, yet it must be acknowledged that in the present unperfect state of our civilization, the higher education of women has not yet in this regard been carried as far as that of men. So though as believers in the broadest culture for both sexes, we should like to have our sisters learn to take hearty enjoyment in seeing such a performance...