Word: lacking
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...training. Eighty-nine has been playing football for exercise; '90 and '91are taking walks and pulling chest-weights. The freshmen are rowing in the 'varsity room on the machines. They are obliged to be through by five o'clock, and as they have nearly three crews at work, the lack of room is very apparent and interferes greatly with their work. Their average weight is at present nearly 156 pounds...
...Indians had improved in the last twenty years. The whites of the South have been intimidated into education by the progress of the blacks. The state of Mississippi is doing more for the instruction of the Negroes than is done by Massachusetts. The great trouble, however, is the lack of teachers...
...close of the war the historic university of Nashville for lack of funds was obliged to close, and the Peabody College now occupies the site of the old university. The college is patronized by every southern State and its graduates are the most prominent of the younger professors of the South. There are 114 scholarships which are distributed among the different States according to scholastic population. Each scholarship pays the incumbent $200 and lasts two years. Tuition and text books are free to students from all parts of the world, the only charge being $6 a year. The annual expenses...
...especially carved seals, are now received direct from the finders in Chaldea by London dealers in antiquities, that it is possible to secure valuable collections without a visit to the Orient. In this way Harvard University has already become possessor of some valuable tablets, and nothing but the lack of money prevents an indefinite enlargement of the collections...
Owing to the lack of profit made on "blue books," and to reduce the number of instances in which time has to be taken to count out and make change for less than a dozen, the prices are advanced to 5 cents each for the 3 hour books, and 3 cents for the 1-hour. Packages of 1 dozen books will remain at the old price, 35 cents and 24 cents...