Word: lacking
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...lively combat between two stalwart waiters in Memorial caused quite a commotion at breakfast yesterday; after the shower of plates with which they opened the dispute had ceased from lack of ammunition, they grappled, and for some minutes, there was a picturesque fist fight till they were separated. Both were promptly discharged...
...ives needlessly thrown away. Nor can all the blame be laid upon a single man if the fire that must yet come pens up a half-dozen men in a blazing building. Fire escapes have been asked for, and the authorities have refused them. Any loss of life from lack of them that may occur will surely be charged to the proper account...
...form the senior eights took their positions. The scene was a stirring one. In front of the boat-house the four barges were shooting back and fourth, manned by crews uniformed in jerseys of every conceivable color, yet presenting an appearance all the more picturesque from their very lack of uniformity. On the west bank of the river were stationed two cameras, whose owners "shot" the crews with the regularity of a gatling gun battery...
...famous university. It is the cause of the signal failure of the library to enlighten our minds after sunset; the cause which has occasioned those ever recurring topics of conversation, the pumps, the state of the yard, the onslaught of barbaric muckerism and their like. It is simply the lack of means coupled with the accessory idea of lack of instructors. The English department has attempted by a new system of reckoning to bridge the difficulty. It is now determined that those juniors who have elected composition courses instead of writing the junior themes, shall write a thesis which shall...
...failure of the enterprise was evidently not due to lack of intellectual ability on the part of the students, for one who died during his course at the age of twenty years, is described by the President of the college at that time as an "acute gramarian, an extraordinary Latin poet, and a good Greek one." The building, after the school was given up, because the printing house in which John Eliot's Indian Bible was printed. It was finally destroyed by fire...