Word: lacking
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...course in reading at sight last year attracted but few, and therefore was not given again this year. It is true that students are not as well acquainted with German as with French; yet if all who would find these readings of profit should attend, there would be no lack of numbers...
...University Beacon declares that one of the "prevailing vices" of college English (which means English in college papers) is "a lack of statuesqueness in ideas!" If we had seen that expression in a paper hailing from the Cape of Good Hope or the Feejee Islands, we could still have sworn that it was written within a mile of the gilded dome of the State House...
...Nigger baby" and "foot-and-a-half" - whatever they may be - are popular pastimes. With these on hand we see no reason why there should be a complaint of lack of employment for half-holidays...
...Unlike the Harvard match, there was a noticeable lack of the friendly and gentlemanly spirit which characterized that contest. From the beginning to the end of the game on Saturday, there seemed to pervade the Yale-men a desire to injure and "lay up" our players on every occasion when there was no chance of detection. We were in hopes of playing against gentlemen when we met Yale, but they sadly disappointed us, for their conduct throughout closely resembled that of pugilists, their chief object being, apparently, to win the game by foul or fair means. We do not make...
...would develop a character worth having, but at the same time I am convinced that to speak one's opinion effectively requires a degree of tact as well as determination that few possess. It is not eccentricity which is a matter of reproach at Harvard; it is the lack of manners and good sense...