Word: dearth
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Freshman football candidates have been placed under J. E. N. Shaw, 2 L, as head coach. All Freshmen are urged to come out and try for the team, especially heavy men, as there is a dearth of material for the line. The candidates who handed in their names on Thursday night have been divided into squads which have been in charge of the following captains: A. Stillman, J. B. Ayres, J. D. Clark, J. C. Waterbury, P. Fox, A. R. Campbell and D. A. Baldwin. These captains will report at the Locker Building today at 3.45, and all other candidates...
...enviable position in the past has been made and maintained by the earnest work of a body of men who were interested in speaking, and who had the good of their University deeply at heart. As the time comes to fill their places, let there not be a dearth of trained...
...Governor Long opened the exercises in a simple and happy speech. "We are gathered," he said, "to witness another intercollegiate contest, a contest, not of physical strength and skill, but of intellectual ability and training. Considering the lack-I might say dearth- of opportunity for such training in my own day, I think it matter of congratulation that these debates have become institutions...
...players were so badly injured as to make them unfit for further service. Stevenson had his jaw hurt, Acton dislocated his elbow, Dunlop broke his collar bone, and Gray broke his leg. During October, too, the problem of the coaches changed. Early in the season there had been a dearth of rush line players, and a surplusage of backs. But with the return of Waters and Mackie, the improvement of the two Shaws, and the recovery of Emmons from a broken ankle, the line was strengthened remarkably. On the contrary, the halfbacks were doing poorly. In addition to Gray, Stevenson...
...missions. The lower and higher classes of society are being brought closer than ever together by the present hard times, and the rich and the educated are beginning to see that they are in a way responsible for the poor and the ignorant. If there is to be a dearth, therefore, of helpers in the line of missionary endeavor, it is not likely to be felt at home nearly so soon as abroad. The call to leave home and friends to go to a foreign country where everything is uncertain, is not so inviting as work...