Word: lacking
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...ends for the present. Although a fine-arts building and new dormitories would be acquisitions greatly to be desired, such things are by no means the chief aims of a genuine university, which is always an association of scholars primarily and only secondarily an association of buildings; and the lack of such material advantages by no means signifies so much as the lack of other and intellectual endowments...
Voted That as the auditor's accounts have been fully and carefully examined and found to be substantially accurate, except the mistake in applying the reserve fund for repairs, losses, etc., to the reduction of the price of board for October and November; that any lack of confidence in the financial management of the hall is not warranted by the facts of the case...
...Lack of enterprise is not a failing of THE HARVARD HERALD. It appears for sale in the streets at Cambridge at 3 A. M. - [Princetonian.] News...
...books of synonyms, etc. His spontaneity disappears; he looks upon originality as something for which he must never make the slightest attempt, and he comes to think he has attained the ideal when his writing reads like a catalogue, and when he has acquired a style, which, from its lack of individuality, is no style...
...authorities to the wretched condition of the walks between the chapel and Memorial, and between the library and chapel. Even now the mud is several inches deep in some places, and what must we expect when the regular spring thaws come? It seems to us that a great lack of forethought was shown by the authorities when they expended so much in placing stone and brick walks all over the yard, and left these two most important thoroughfares without even the protection of that cheap, and much abused, "plank walk...