Word: lacking
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...great joy to our hearts; but this change for the better is an omen, a presage of future improvements. For where little things do not escape the eye, there we may be sure that the big things are not neglected. When we see such a slight evil as the lack of bulletin boards in two buildings remedied, what shall not our hopes be of a bridge over our raging yard torrents - which we now must ford - of additional dormitories, of a better class of goodies - the hiring of whom with the present pittance for wages is, we confess, well high...
...suggestion that the Lawrence scientific school be abandoned as a separate institution, (that lack of space prevents our printing) and that its functions be wholly undertaken by the university seems to us to be a very timely one, and, as the writer in "Science" says, one in which no way deprecates the good work done by the school...
...those who may desire to take entrance examinations in science instead of in one of the classics. It is well, therefore, to note President Eliot's attitude on this question. He says, "A serious difficulty in the way of getting science well taught in secondary schools has been the lack of teachers who knew anything of inductive reasoning and experimental methods." One reason of this is that "good school methods of teaching the sciences have not yet been elaborated and demonstrated, and it is the first duty of university departments of science to remove at least this obstacle...
...only 57 per cent of the Harvard undergraduates used the library, but now nearly 90 per cent avail themselves of his privileges. This statement from President Elliot's report, shows two things: one, that 10 years ago there must have been a sad lack of at least one branch of culture; the other, that it is now popular at Harvard to be known as a reading man. - Boston Record...
Because we need a few things, such as one or two dormitories, the lighting of Gore Hall, plank sidewalks in the yard and an elevated railway to Boston, which the authorities can not furnish all at once on account of the lack of available funds, we must not lose sight of the fact, that in the great and complicated whole, the university is, to use a technical Greek phrase "just booming...