Word: lacking
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...cannot forbear again calling attention to the ridiculous extreme to which their fear of this professionalism has carried them. It is a well known fact that our base-ball nine made a failure of its last season, although it started out with the brightest prospects, simply from the lack of professional training. Although other colleges had the advantage of a professional player in training their pitchers and their batsmen, we were compelled to play through the season without having had the least preliminary training. The result was shown by the scores. Although our nine led the colleges in her fielding...
...fifteen to twenty, half of whom were freshmen, and for two weeks these continued to play a series of loose irregular games among themselves. Then came the challenge from Harvard and, to the disgust of all the surprise of many, the managers were obliged to refuse because of a lack of a trained eleven. This unfortunate event had at least the effect of rousing a desire to have the team play somebody...
...accident at the boat house caused by the carelessness of the corporation, and which came so near being a frightful disaster, directs the attention of every student towards what may at any time produce a far greater calamity, namely, the lack of fire-escapes in several of the buildings in the yard. This question has been agitated yearly by the students until it has become almost a by-word, but of a sudden it may turn into a ghastly sort of joke, unless the college takes some definite action in regard to it. The clamors of the students last spring...
...success of its representatives at Hartford. although many of our best players left college with '83, we were able to retain the championship won last year by Mr. Clark and Mr. Taylor. The only complaint the association can make is in regard to the attendance or rather lack of attendance of Harvard sympathizers at the contest. While every play of the men from other colleges is applauded by a hundred or more of their classmates, the representatives of Harvard are obliged to play without a sign of approval. We hope that in another year the state of affairs will...
...Amateur Athlete, has suspended publication on account of lack of patronage...