Word: lacking
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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With Cbarles Francis Adams, Jr., for orator and Robert Grant White for poet, the Phi Beta Kappa programme at Harvard this year promises to lack nothing of solid merit or brilliancy, says the Gazette...
...that argument. Defeated in 1881 in a race where the honors were almost equally divided between victor and vanquished, and victorious last year in the fastest eight-oared race ever rowed by two crews in this country, it would naturally be supposed that the Harvard crew could not possibly lack support. In spite of our misfortunes of this year, we send to New London one of the finest crews Harvard has ever entered in a race and one that will give Yale a hard struggle. If Yale should win this race, she would again tie Harvard in number of victories...
EDITORS HARVARD HERALD: The notable lack of accommodation in the way of college rooms invites attention to some effort to remedy this lack, until some generous patron has given us a new dormitory. Everyone has noticed that our oldest hall, Massachusetts, has long been given to vacancy and examinations, no use being made of it all, practically, except on rare occasions. The use of this hall as a dormitory was discontinued with the building of new halls some ten years ago in which sufficient accommodations were provided for all the students then here. With the advent of Sever Hall...
...material for spreads must be carried in by attendants on foot; and, third, that between 4 P. M. and 11 P. M. attendants will not be allowed to enter or leave the yard with dishes, ice-cream cans, etc. The inconvenience caused by the lack of a rule of this kind in '82 has led to its adoption in our own case...
...recitations merely serve to point out to a man the best authorities on the subject he is studying. To read all these authorities takes all a man's time. In some courses it is almost impossible for a man to do justice to the subject, on account of lack of time. And yet, when the examinations are over, he is expected to be prepared at once on all these books, little or no time being given him for review. The instructor continues giving out references by the hundred pages every lecture until the last recitation bell of the year peals...