Word: lacking
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...year has hardly excited at Harvard the interest taken in it during past years deeper interest in the individual work of the players has never, perhaps, been shown. The playing of Yale as a team cannot be classed as worthy of its usual high commendation, but, notwithstanding the evident lack of first-class material, there was still exhibited much of the old time determination to win. But fortune has, for this time at least, decided against the blue. We recognize the pluck shown by the members of the Yale team, but at last their old rivals have surpassed them. There...
...students in our college from all this district is the same that it was five years ago. We have from the state of Minnesota three men, and this notwithstanding the fact that all that region has doubled in population since that time. Cannot a reason for Princeton's lack of support in this quarter be found in the fact that in all that expanse of country lying Northwest of Chicago, containing the two great cities of St. Paul and Minneapolis, with a population between them of 250,000, does not contain any association of Princeton alumni? If those having...
...rags would burn and so the San Franciscans found out. The fire of May 4, 1851, destroyed $7,000,000 worth of property, and was called the great fire. For lack of water the engines stood by as silent evidence of the city's official disapproval of fires. Thousands of people were left homeless. In 1851 and 1856 were formed the two famous vigilance committees. The committee of 1856 was highly organized. The committee of '51 had something of the form of an outburst of popular feeling. In closing, the lecturer said he could not help drawing a lesson from...
EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON. - I see in one of your columns that a complaint is made on account of lack of energy in carrying out the plans of the proposed grand stand. I wish to state that two mass meetings were called, before the last of which a notice was put in the CRIMSON, that unless there was a fair-sized meeting, the committee would take it for granted that the students did not care to have anything further done in regard to the grand stand. At the last meeting there were hardly twenty men present and as had been stated...
...lack of principle in their correspondence may be due to mere thought-lessness. Let us so regard it for the present. If, however, no improvement is seen hereafter, then charity can serve no longer as a cloak for this evil...