Word: lacking
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...more frequently than the city, because of the fact that one quarter of its members change every year. Men are surprised because there were only twenty-eight entries this year to the Athletic Sports compared with sixty-three, which was the number last fall, and attribute this to a lack of spirit and a want of energy in the students. While the real reason is this: the Harvard man seeks amusement; he finds it one year in rowing or running, the next year he is tired of these and looks around for some new pursuit with which to divert himself...
...paper; but there are many persons who consider that the matter - somewhat trivial in itself - nevertheless affects the relation between undergraduates in general and those who govern them. It is put beside several other incidents of a similar nature, and derives, in consequence, an importance which it would otherwise lack. It has been pronounced to mark a line of policy which the authorities intend to adopt - have, in fact, already adopted - towards us; and hence it has aroused the indignation of which we have spoken. Nothing can be worse for us, as a college, than bickerings between the undergraduates...
...been better for our Advocate reviewer to have confined his unchivalrous and uncharitable attacks to Mr. Emerson's advancing age, to grandiloquent remarks on Immortality, and to hunting out obscure passages in these essays, instead of criticising the best Persian scholar in America; for therein he shows a censurable lack of respect for an acknowledged authority and a lamentable amount of ignorance and unfamiliarity with the subject. The writer is surprised that Mr. Emerson did not devote more attention to Omar Khayyam. Why should he? The fact that Omar Khayyam, previously almost unknown from the rarity of his manuscripts...
...chivalry is gone." Were such dispositions and sentiments as our truculent critic's article shows common in our Senator's time, he might well have added, "The age of humanity, of courtesy, of urbanity, is gone." One of the worst and most common of American faults is lack of respect and reverence for what is old, venerable, and well deserving. At the risk of being old-fashioned and out of date, I believe in treating age with the utmost respect and kindness. To my eyes there is no more noble and venerable sight than an honest, earnest lover and benefactor...
...they would have rowed the last quarter of a mile in that race very differently. The remembrance of the race of last year is fresh in the minds of all. It was well rowed until the time for the final spurt, and that was a miserable failure, - not from lack of endurance, but for a reason of which it is not well to speak...