Word: lacking
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...time draws near when men who intend to compete for the Boylston prizes must begin earnest work, the lack of sufficient instruction in elocution becomes painfully noticeable...
...attribute this lack of interest toward the college partly to its being in this city. It is lost sight of in this centre of business, fashion, and pleasure, surrounded as it is by other institutions of learning, libraries and museums. Why, Harvard is the great thing in Boston, as Yale is in New Haven; and the town of Princeton would be unknown were it not for Nassau Hall. Such a state of affairs does not exist here, and yet Columbia is doing a great work with the means at her command." The accounting for this lack of interest by saying...
...Inman steamer City of Chester, from Liverpool for New York, was at sea in a gale on Wednesday with a broken shaft. The steamship Suevia took her in tow for a time, but left her for lack of sufficient coal. She is anxiously looked for at Halifax...
...where they might be taught by the college faculty, yet it is suggested that a course of study should be planned which women might pursue outside of the college but under the direction of the college authorities. Columbia thus declares co-education out of the question. But by mentioning lack of funds as the only objection to the plan for establishing an auxiliary school or "Annex" under the instruction of the college faculty, she has practically paved the way for the establishment of such a school at Columbia in the near future. Columbia's position, therefore, is substantially the same...
...improvement. The place of sale should be in some place where a line can easily be formed, and where no inconvenience will result from the crowd. Last year the sale of tickets took place in one of the rooms of Holworthy, and much trouble was caused by the lack of a suitable place for forming a line. The gentleman, too, occupying the room opposite that of the secretary of the association, although he very kindly threw his room open to the crowd, must have been much annoyed by the intrusion Probably the officers of the Co-operative Society would willingly...