Word: lacking
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...careful reading of the communication will show the utter lack of facts by which such charges ought to be sustained. In the first place complaint is made because the sittings were given hurriedly. It will be remembered that by the contract all sittings were to be finished by the first of March. Notices to this effect frequently appeared in this paper long before the above date. Personal appeals were made for early sitting; appointments were made by members of the committee and by the photographer; and appointments for sittings were given both at the Cambridge studio and at the Boston...
...communication which we publish in another column in regard to the senior class photographs, seems to have been written in a spirit of fault-finding and exaggeration, which to some extent probably accounts for the evident lack of facts contained in this communication. The work of a photographic committee is notoriously disagreeable. Complaints will always arise as it is impossible to satisfy everybody, and of course all the blame is laid upon the committee, or upon the photographer. No blame is ever for a moment placed upon the man who neglects time and time again to arrange a sitting...
...goal. Some excuse for the demoralization of the Harvard defense during the first half of the game may be found in the fact that Drake, goal-tender was ill,-so ill that he had to be changed-and that Peabody was suffering from a lame knee. There was a lack of system, however, in the defense play, and to this, in part at least, the defeat...
...illustrations of the lecture were given by the Campanari string quartette. They played two quartettes by Haydn, illustrating his earlier and his later more advanced style, and one by Mozart. The playing of the first was not all that could have been desired, showing considerable roughness and lack of finish; the Mozart was more satisfactory...
...wish to make no sweeping condemnation of the book in what I have said, but only to point out, as best I may, the extravagance and lack of discrimination of such criticism as has appeared in our college papers...