Word: lacking
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...week. Walter Alexander, '87, stroke of last year's 'varsity, has been coaching them, but they have not as yet secured a regular coach. The men who are trying for the crew are, with a few exceptions, of good size, and their principal faults are due to their lack of experience. They all lack control of their bodies, and hence their rowing is very irregular. The body swing is carried too far at both ends and results in "slumping" at the finish and falling forward at the full reach. The crew shoot out their hands at the finish with such...
...very unfortunate that the Exeter men at Harvard cannot be persuaded to form an Exeter Club here. Again and again has the subject been brought up through your columns, editorially and by communication, but still the men remain inactive. I do not think that this is entirely due to lack of interest in Harvard, but more probably because no one wishes to assume the lead in the matter. Such modesty is entirely out of place, and no man who would be at all likely to have influence in the formation of an Exeter club should be controlled by such petty...
...following clipping, after Professor Norton's lecture on Tuesday evening, may be interesting, and will give an idea of what is being done in the way of excavation by the Americans in Greece. Lack of funds, it will be seen, is the great drawback to greater and more systematic work. It is to be hoped that the money now being collected in New York will soon be at the disposal of the proper authorities. Then can we look forward to the accomplishment of good work by American archaeologists...
...recognition of his work the Greek authorities have presented the original fragment and a cast of the whole slab to the American school. The American excavations at Ikarie and Starnata have also yielded good results, and the government has given permission to dig at three other important places, but lack of funds prevents our school from taking the lead of all the institutes of Athens...
...explained very clearly to the freshman class the present great need of a lecture room sufficient to accommodate the increased number of students in his course. This need is yearly increasing and should be satisfied at once. Here, however, as in the other case, the college is delayed by lack of available funds, and so we are forced to wait for a necessary improvement...