Word: lacking
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...University crew leaves for New London, Friday, June 13th. It is necessary that all promised subscriptions should be handed to the treasurer before tonight in order that the crew may not be hampered by a lack of money at New London...
...that for the future, if it be too late to change now, all examinations which would be held in U. E. R., be held in the unoccupied recitation rooms of Sever. The ventilation of Sever is none too good, but it is most perfect when compared with the utter lack of ventilation which U. E. R. possesses...
...seldom that one can compare any of the small or even moderate sized colleges with the larger universities, and it is even more rare to find in such institutions some qualities which their larger rivals lack. Still, that a small college possesses some advantages that great universities have not, nor from present appearances ever will have, cannot be doubted by the skeptical. One of the most important of these advantages and one that will seriously influence hereafter many who wish a college education in its full sense is the good fellowship in the various classes. If as may occur...
...accounted for only by bad management or indifference. At other colleges the system pursued is much different, and the results are most gratifying; but at Harvard, while the teams are good, and composed of the best men in the college, still, when substites have to be employed, their lack of training and skill is often painfully evident, and always will be until some change be made by the students. The indifference of men to come out and practice is a crying evil, and one that must be reformed if Harvard College wishes to hold the position in sports that...
Truly, we wish that New Haven and Cambridge and all those seats of learning which are subject to this plague could find some remedy which would free them forever from it. Not only are they continually in the way and making themselves obnoxious, but, by their lack of manners, as shown in their treatment of visiting ball clubs and other organizations, they often bring discredit upon the body of students...