Word: lacking
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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About fifty men responded to the call for candidates for the Mott Haven team, yesterday afternoon, meeting at 3.30 in the Trophy room at the gymnasium. There was a decided lack of "heavy-weights," which betokens a weakness in shot-putting and hammerthrowing that must be overcome if Harvard is going to win at New York next spring. Tug-of-war men also were at a premium, and it is to be hoped more men of the heavy stamp will turn up. The following men have handed in their names as candidates...
...call of the captain of the crew and present himself as a candidate. The class and the college needs them, and they will be acting foolishly and shamefully if, satisfied with having belonged to a victorious freshman eleven, they expect to see their crew successful through their inaction and lack of interest...
...Lack of enthusiasm-Harvard indifference-has been dinged in our ears for years past as the cause of our athletic defeats. Some men, however, have seen more deeply, and have struck at the real cause both of Harvard's indifference and her want of success. Athletics are free from artificial and injurious restraint, and a vigorous hope of success is taking the place of a growing despair that Harvard would ever again win victory. There is no need to urge earnestness on the part of those trying for the nine or crew, for the spirit...
...contribution, "A Study of Rossetti's Verse," is a piece of work which badly needs revision. What is said of Rossetti is undoubtedly based on extended reading and upon an adequate appreciation of the poet's nature, but the article itself is remarkable for nothing except its lack of clearness and method and its exhibition of some of the most rudimentary of historical blunders...
...such chances are left to '89, so the members should exert themselves to attend the dinner and contribute their part to increase the good fellowship. Eighty-nine has made a good record in college of which she may well be proud, and she has never been charged with lack of class patriotism. The dinner a year ago was a proof of the loyalty of her members. Her junior dinner was the largest one ever held by any class. There is no reason why the senior dinner should not be still larger. Let every man sign and help to make...