Word: lacking
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...selecting a definite plan for his whole college course. The classical circular should also contain similar schemes, which are of great value to the student. If the example of the departments were followed by all the instructors in college, there would be less cause for dissatisfaction arising from a lack of knowledge as to the nature of the different courses...
...could have been wished for; but it is folly to expect the nine to win games without being able to bat, and it is equal folly to expect a nine to be able to bat without any practice. Our nine enters the championship contest this year heavily handicapped from lack of practice in batting good pitchers. This practice has been acquired in previous years either by playing professional nines or by being under a professional coach through the winter. Every other college nine has had the benefit of one or both these methods of practice this year; but Harvard...
...editorial in the Boston Journal of Saturday commends highly the steady progress made by Harvard in the way of offering new courses of study, but criticises the lack of instruction offered in Modern History and Political Economy...
...institutions visited by them. In several cases they found that standard scientific subjects were taught without the use of any text-books whatever, and the students learned only what little they could retain from short lectures on the subject. At other places there seemed to be a lack of a sufficient number of instructors * * *. In some cases the selection of studies and the attendance at recitations were entirely optional with the students. In all of these particulars we feel that we greatly excel our neighbors, but a great part of our strength is our being able to divide classes into...
...most prominent weak point is the lack of competent and sufficient instruction in the branches which fit one for the duties of citizenship. Though the departments of history and political economy are crowded with students, yet in the former United States history is almost entirely neglected, while in political economy there is but one instructor for every 100 students, as against an average for the whole university of one teacher to 9 scholars, (163 instructors, 1,428 students.) What is needed in these departments is an increase in the amount of instruction, instructors of learning and reputation, and courageous, fairminded...