Word: lacking
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Hyde's influence on the boys of Phillips Academy while at Andover warrants the prediction that in the recitation rooms he will be a positive force. Personally, Mr. Hyde will attract attention for his winning face and dignified bearing. Harvard man through and through as he is, he would lack symmetry if not developed also on the athletic side. Bowdoin students will find in him, should he become their president, an enthusiastic sympathiser in their sports, for he is a good base ball player and an adept in the manly art of self defence. It may be remarked in passing...
...Princetonian goes one step farther in the discussion of the support of a college journal, than most other papers have gone. It complains of lack of support from the faculty, and by support is meant not pecuniary support at all, but contribution to the columns of the paper and especially recognition of its purposes. The Princetonian has gone so far as early in the year to supply Princeton professors and instructors with stamped envelopes, in which they were to mail any notices and information they might desire to publish to the college. The effort was decidedly a commendable...
...warm, almost sultry weather of the last few days again arouses thoughts about the lack of general interest in rowing. There are now in the boat-house a fair number of pair-oared working boats, which are not used from one season to another. Although the Charles is not the most pleasing of waters on which a young man may exercise his muscle with the oars, yet the river is not so bad after all, and surely there ought to be awakened among our undergraduates a greater desire for universal excellence in boating. There are a few private shells...
...sincerely hope that Yale will enter the league, and that the lack of enthusiasm, of which the Courant complains, will least, not be permanent...
...present dynasty came into power. On the whole, things have run along pretty smoothly under its administration, - complaints have been comparatively infrequent, and no small amount of satisfaction has been expressed at the efforts of the management to make the association a success. But now the steward - for, in lack of more definite information, he must be considered responsible - has allowed matters to fall into a condition which calls for immediate and sharp comment. A communication on another page shows plainly enough the existing state of things, and it is safe to say that it voices the opinions...