Word: lacking
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Wellesley College has been obliged to refuse many candidates for entrance from lack of room. The attendance is at present over seven hundred...
...very probable that the Phillips Exeter Literary Monthly will be obliged to suspend publication next year, owing to a lack of editors. The periodical has been only two years in existence, but has won for itself an enviable position among the college literary magazines...
...incredible amount of carelessness and ignorance among those in authority. Army officers were appointed who knew nothing of military operations, and were far surpassed in knowledge, capacity, and even intelligence by many of the privates; the movement of parts of the army was delayed for days for lack of proper orders; at the end of long marches the soldiers found that no preparation had been made for feeding them, and a large body of men had to given leave of absence upon their arrival in Paris because there was no means of taking care of them otherwise. Professor Cohn...
...need a yodler and a whistler. The number of men who attended the trial of candidates last October was smaller than usual; it would be very unfortunate if with greater needs than usual the Club should find itself hampered next fall by a limited range of choice occasioned by lack of interest on the part of the musical men of the University...
...chief difficulties preparatory schools have to contend with is a lack of a good library. Scholarships, gymnasiums, and laboratories usually spring into existence after the growth of the school sufficiently warrants such innovations, but a library, consisting of something more than lexicons and encyclopedias, rarely finds a space in the ordinary fitting school. The Phillips Exeter Academy, however, has been a commendable exception to this rule, and at present a fairly large collection of books has been amassed, through the efforts of instructors and alumni. Every volume of the lot relates more or less directly to some...