Word: lacking
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...team was held in the trophy room of the gymnasium last evening. Only eleven men presented themselves, and of these only three have ever pulled on a tug-of-war team. The outlook at present, therefore, for a good team is far from encouraging. It shows an utter lack of spirit and enthusiasm on the part of the freshmen when out of a class of three hundred only eleven men are willing to try for positions on the team. The men trying for the crew are not allowed to try for the tug but in the rest of the class...
Yale will this year hold a series of contests in putting the shot and throwing the hammer, similar to those held here last year, but which will be given up this winter owing to the lack of interest. The first meeting will be held January 29, and at least one every week thereafter. The meetings will all be handicap. The new men will at first receive the full allowance, and after that be handicapped at their respective records. The prizes will be awarded at each meeting and held until the final, and the man having the best record for points...
Owing to the general lack of interest in bicycling at New Haven, the Yale Bicycle Club feel unable to accept the generous challenge of the Harvard Bicycle Club...
Lacrosse and rowing have been dropped entirely, the former on account of the inability to arrange games, the latter on account of the lack of a suitable place to practice...
...track athletics. The number of candidates for the Mott Haven team in past years has always been very large, and to this fact its success is largely to be attributed We hope, therefore, that the call for men this year will be heeded, and that there may be no lack of men from whom a strong team may be chosen to meat our rival colleges in New York next...