Word: dearth
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...separately for their physique, is fair, but nothing exceptionally strong; here lies the weak point of Oxford this season. We do not mean to say that the men are a weakly lot. There are plenty of good No. 3's and No. 2's, but there is a dearth of those first-class giants of which a good crew should always have three or more." Then follows a criticism of the men individually, which suggests that there is material in the boats that can be improved and developed in time. The impression left on the reader's mind is that...
...entries and the other four but one each. Yielding to the wishes of the other members of the Executive Committee, I left open the entries until noon on Friday, when by going about and begging men to enter we succeeded in filling all the events but one. Notwithstanding this dearth of entries, there were two men who wished to enter just as the events were about to begin. One of them, and his reasons I could appreciate but not comply with, said it was not convenient for him to join the Association before. The other said he thought the entries...
...support of Harvard's wish to secede, some of the graduates, and a few newspapers, warn Harvard against leaving the Association because of the "odium" which she will certainly incur by such a course. Fair Harvard will be dishonored, for-sooth, if a few penny-a-liners, through dearth of news, choose to call her motives of action base; Harvard will lose men's esteem, should she acknowledge her real feelings and cast aside all shuffling and timidity; Harvard, indeed, the oldest and largest university in the land, whose children hold - and have always held - the foremost places...
...contribute, in the way most suited to his abilities, to the honor and eminence of Harvard. Let those who are blessed with a good biceps grasp the bat or the oar; let those who have not that too common holy reverence for a pen seek to relieve the prevailing dearth of contributions for the College papers, - nor does he do the least who leaves College with a general average of ninety-plus per cent, - but let us have no drones among...
...never yet had meagre, wasting Dearth...