Word: lacking
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...January 22, and H. U. B. C. letter of January 25) our resolution to abide by the decision of our joint committee, no other guarantee is necessary, and we decline to sign any further agreement. We cannot consent to the appointment of a neutral committee, as it implies a lack of confidence in our respective committees and in their ability to settle questions which in former years the crew considered themselves competent to decide. We are of the opinion that your graduate committee having full power, the joint committee is competent to bring the whole matter to a satisfactory conclusion...
...DISAPPOINTED."The new Reading Room Association at Harvard are greatly disappointed at the "lack of appreciation on the part of the college in general." Can it be that the Harvard student has neither time nor inclination to read current literature? Perhaps interest in athletics is reviving once more. - [News...
...advantage derived from their having adequate boating facilities. With regard to boating, no other preparatory school, with the exception of St. Paul's, has such good natural opportunities as Exeter, and yet, as all graduates of Exeter know, these opportunities have been, and are now, greatly diminished through lack of boats. Exeter men have always taken great interest in boating, and if the academy club were made a protege of the college association, that interest would be more than redoubled. Boating is at present, however, held below base-ball and foot-ball at Exeter; in fact, as the Exonian says...
...Sargent then proceeds to explain the causes for the absence of enthusiasm in most institutions of learning. He attributes this in great part to either poor gymnasia or inefficient instructors. His account of an average gymnasium is very amusing and well worth reading. He also deprecates "the lack of a suitable man, with sufficient authority, at the head of the department - a man who is a college graduate, a practical gymnast, and an educated physician...
...small fee required for membership. The leading dailies, and as many of the prominent periodicals and magazines as the limited means of the association can afford, have already been placed in the reading-room, and the room itself is well heated, but there seems to be, so far, a lack of appreciation on the part of the college in general. Certainly the least to be done by those who have signified their intention to join the association, is to meet their subscription at once, and it is to be hoped that, as the labors of the committee to give...