Word: lacking
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...seniors beat the sophomores by a score of 7 to 6. The game was very close throughout, though Ninety-one had the lead for seven innings. McPherson and Wood were both very effective and the batting very light. The men on both nines played well though several showed the lack of practice. The features of the game were the difficult running catches of Wood and Crosby. The batting was weak and the base running sometimes careless. Very fine playing was made difficult by the cold wind, nevertheless the game as a whole was above the average of class games. Appended...
...loyally answered by the most practical citizens among us, and it is to be hoped that Harvard, the leading university in the land, will be among the first to celebrate the occasion and express gratitude for the present prosperity of our nation. Therefore, may Tuesday morning not find a lack of patriotism among us, and may there not be an opportunity offered to the outside world further to display Harvard in difference...
...interrupts saying, "We know not whither thou goest, and how can we know the way?" Here we have a perfect illustration of the agnostic spirit of this age, a spirit the fault of which is that it is of the intellect rather than of the heart. There is a lack of faith. And so in the last scene in which Thomas appears, the one of the text, there is a lack of faith in all things which the testimony of the senses does not confirm. And this is the gravest fault of this age which is continually demanding a sign...
...second is by Professor Charles Eliot Norton, of the department of Fine Arts, and is on "The Lack of Old Homes in America" It discusses at length the reasons why one so rarely meets with homesteads in this country...
Harvard was beaten 8 to 5 in a seven innings game by Williams at Williamstown Saturday afternoon. The day was stormy and made good playing out of the question, but the condition of the weather does not account for the utterly reckless manner and lack of determination shown by Harvard. The men that constitute the Harvard University nine ought to understand by this time that they are expected to make at least a fair showing. What the result of a Harvard-Princeton game will be, judging from Saturday's and other games played so far this season, is too ridiculous...