Word: lacking
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...polo club has been formed at Brown, and has accepted a challenge from Yale to play at Providence, March 22, and at New Haven the following Friday. There is much complaint at Brown because of the lack of facilities for athletic training there and the consequent languishing interest in college sports. The Brown correspondent of the Advertiser says : "Students read with feelings of envy the accounts of the exercises at the Hemenway Gymnasium, and hope the time may come when some generous alumnus will remember the wants of Brown in this particular...
...these devotees to aquatic sports there appear no single scullers. When we remember Harvard's former glory in this respect, and the honors gained by her representatives abroad, as well as the well-contested victories in exciting local races, we feel that there exists at present a lamentable lack of interest in this kind of sport previously so popular and commendable. With '79 and '80 our former champions left college, and since their departure no sufficient revival of interest has taken place to bring out new representatives who will sustain Harvard's former prestige and note. We hope that...
...necessary by the board of directors. There is another class of men who would return merely for the sake of saving the association from failure, provided that they could commence with the beginning of the next term, but they are hampered by the same restriction as the others - a lack of due notice. Another reason for postponing the date on which Memorial Hall shall be closed. The bill for board during the coming term is not payable until next October. This is another inducement to many students to board at the hall, but they cannot leave their present boarding-houses...
...team is composed of stocky men, who pull a powerful team, but lack the precision...
...reported as having gained points from Boston teams. They pull in fair form, but lack the experience which many of the other teams have...