Word: lacking
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...give odds that their next issue will partake more of the character of the New York Clipper than the News of Friday. The fact that the recipient of a letter of this kind does not have good taste enough to withhold it from publication is no excuse for the lack of judgment of the editors of the News in allowing it to appear in print...
...will of the present members of the German department. On the contrary, whoever knows these gentlemen at all, will agree with him that Harvard never possessed such a strong corps of able and energetic instructors as at present. The fault lies in the system, or rather in the present lack of system...
...found out his mistake, apologize, in some form, for his ill-advised haste? As it was, with no explanation of, or excuse for, his act, the Directors could merely infer that what he did was a wilful and malicious usurpation of authority. Unfortunately, too, his previous reputation for lack of civility was such as to raise every presumption against him. That the Bursar is an official of the College but makes the indignity the more to be censured. For a private individual who did such a thing would simply be despised for his ill-breeding; whereas, in an official...
...baskets contain! Undergraduate poets seem to have a poor command of language, and this gives rise to repetitions, and gives an air of awkwardness and carelessness to many of their compositions; we often find words put in merely for rhymes or to fill out the stanza, and a general lack of careful revision is painfully evident. I have noticed that the last stanza, - often the last line of the last stanza, - contains the worst faults in the piece, as though the "divine afflatus" had all escaped before the poet reached his period...
...This failing, in both branches, is due in great measure to that system which throws upon a few prominent men the management of the many different interests. But more important than that even, in the case of some of the societies for the pursuit of knowledge, is the lack of a qualification for membership. In the Natural History Society and the Art Club, for example, there are many men who have no other qualification for membership than that they are pleasant fellows and can afford to pay the dues. Instead of admitting only men who are fitted for membership, either...