Word: lacking
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...catch up with our older universities. Her endowment, if we mistake not, is already larger than Harvard's; she can pay her professors more; and living at Cornell is cheaper than here. All these advantages over us may in time make her a strong rival. But in spite of lack of means, poorly paid professors, and the high cost of living here, Harvard still has the priceless advantage of being the oldest seat of learning in the country. She has the largest and most famous body of alumni. Then in common with Yale and all the older colleges...
Edward Schonberg a member of Exeter College at Oxford, England, was drowned in the Upper River, on Feb. 18. Seven or eight undergraduates were present at the time, but none were able to swim, - a sharp commentary on the lack of proficiency in this art at Oxford University...
...Brunonian complains of the lack of discipline in the training of candidates for the nine...
...communication, which we cannot publish for lack of space, very justly complains of the thoughtless way in which the bath-rooms at the gymnasium are used by a large number of men in college. These rooms are for bathing, not for dressing, especially not for putting on such articles of apparel as a hat, an overcoat, and a cane. It is not only ungentlemanly, but it is unfair for any one to occupy a bath room longer than absolutely necessary; the accommodations are already inadequate to the demand, and any action tending to make this inadequacy greater is censurable...
...complaint has recently been made that the present lack of energy in the bicycle club is the result of a want of personal enthusiasm for the sport on the part of the officers themselves. Lack of interest on the part of the officers is certain to result in the deterioration and possible dissolution of any organization. In the case of a bicycle club especially is there need of an active interest among the officers. It is only by a personal interest which arises from the sport itself, and has as its highest aim the promotion of that sport that...