Word: lacking
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...remarks of questionable taste, the paper must meet with a hearty approval from all. The advice concerning the value of obtaining introductions to the social circles of Cambridge and Boston is well worthy of heed. To many lax customs are springing up among the students from a lack of proper social relations during residence at the university. With many men the possibility of such customs might be obviated by forethought upon leaving home, as but few would be unable to procure proper introductions of such a character as would at least do away with the necessity of seeking questionable amusements...
...Owing to lack of space in yesterday's issue, the clauses of Ezekiel Price Greenleaf's will relating to Harvard could not be published till to-day. The amount left to Harvard College is now reported to be one million dollars...
...working for the study of English, Professor Hill has fought successfully distressing sickness, indifference in the preparatory schools, disorder among the students, lack of sympathy in the Faculty, and bitter personal opposition out of the Faculty. He has established a department which does not pretend to be remarkably scholarly, but which does its best with the problem before it, a problem that none but men who do not teach English have ever solved to their own satisfaction. Loaded down with undergraduate literature, making many mistakes of method in instruction where all methods are as yet experimental, the English Department works...
...English Department pleads poverty, thus tacitly admitting the charges against it; the college at large says - "lack of an energetic head." I do not attempt myself to formulate the cause; I merely state things as I find them. If F. W. K. is satisfied that he can get all desires out of the English courses of Harvard College, I wish him success and happiness; but who else agrees with...
Several communications have been received which a lack of space has prevented from publication...