Word: lacking
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...organized Gun Club of the University of Pennsylvania intended to send up a representative team to accompany the foot-ball eleven to-day, but owing to lack of time for practice the project has been abandoned...
...preach-that even before the hour specified all the seats except a very few near the front were filled-mainly with Cambridge citizens. The complainants go on to assert that many students were obliged either to stand at the very back of the chapel or to go away, for lack of sufficient space in which to bestow themselves. Now Appleton Chapel was built for Harvard College and for the use of Harvard students. Eminent preachers are engaged to come here and talk to us, and the more eminent the preachers are, the better pleased are we to hear them...
...criticize our teams, and it is a task for Sisyphus to provide candidates for them; we condemn the lack of daily papers in the library, and let the reading room perish for want of fifty subscriptions...
Once more we appeal to eighty-nine and ninety. If they will not subscribe, let them write; if they lack brains to write, let them subscribe. The senior class does not enjoy a perpetual tenure of office, and it is time for the under classmen to do something. They are not boys, and should recognize their duties as men. At present it would seem they had found the fountain of perpetual youth, and that it had stunted their growth at the bib period of life...
...desired. Consequently it devolves upon those who have been playing and have given it up from laziness or some other equally good reason, to make their appearance again, in order that the foot-ball team which is doing such cred table work may not get into bad habits through lack of material against which it may test its prowess...