"that sex" (того пола) -- dismissive of women seeking university admission

Chekhov's dismissive periphrasis for women ("того пола," literally "that sex") in the same sentence as, blaming the 1890 student unrest partly on women "thirsting to get into the university" while being, in his claim, "prepared for it five times worse than a man is" -- itself immediately qualified by the admission that men too are poorly prepared and, with rare exceptions, study "vilely." This is casual, unexamined period misogyny about women's fitness for higher education, translated directly rather than softened, per the corpus's no-softening policy for Chekhov's own editorializing (as distinct from reported or quoted speech). Presented factually as documented period prejudice, not endorsed.