Word: lacking
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...every attention shown them is a slight incentive to greater effort. We have not the means of going as far in the demonstration of our support as we could wish, but that is no argument against showing such interest as we can. The crew might justly complain of lack of enthusiasm shown at present by the college...
Entries for the discus-throwing closed at the post. - The event proved to be of considerable interest, but the throwing generally seemed to be marked by lack of skill and practice. It can evidently be made a very graceful and enjoyable sport. Messrs. Denniston, '83, Kip, '83, Page, '83, Paulin, '83, Follansbee, '85, Leavitt, '82, and Cumming, '82, entered. Kip won by a throw of 82 feet, with Denniston second throwing 69 ft., 6 in. The best Greek record is said to be 90 feet...
...seems to have rashly jumped at the cause of the crew's not meeting his ideal. He appears to have attributed it entirely to, as he says, "a spirit of indifference as to the welfare and success of the crew which has pervaded its members," and especially to a lack in the captain of certain necessary and estimable qualities, which we think he possesses. Had he observed more closely he would have found that efforts have been and are being made to induce men to try for any seat which may be bettered by a change, and that, whatever...
...development which few other colleges are troubled with. We refer to the hostile influence of the clergy. Sectarian preachers of all sorts, religions newspapers of every denominational shade, oppose us simply and solely because we are not denominational. It is their contention that the lack of an organic sectarianism here breeds irreligion among the students, binders their moral development, and sends them into the world like Richard, 'half made up.' They show no doubt whatever that we are a set of stubborn scoffers at the faith from a faculty of confirmed infidels to a freshman class of jeering sceptics...
...cities. The third of these buried cities is supposed to be ancient Troy because it shows signs of having been destroyed by fire. In conclusion, Prof. Goodwin hoped that the first expedition sent from the New World to explore the Old World would not fail on account of lack of aid. He thought there might still lie buried in Greece treasures as rich as any yet discovered...