Word: lacking
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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There are many students interested in the work of their classmates in the rowing room, who, from a lack of time, are unable to spend a few hours at the gymnasium and form an idea of the comparative merits of the crews. For the benefit of these, the following account of the crews has been prepared...
Prof. Thompson took as the subject of his third lecture on Protection last evening. The relation of the tariff to the working men's interests. Educated men lack sympathy with the laboring classes. Trades Unions and strikes are unconditionally condemned by them. But we should not forget that the social classes owe something to each other. Protection is the expression of national interest in the laborer. The condition of this class did not begin to improve until Protection became our policy, contrary to general belief. Farm laborers received at the most $5 per month, boys $1. The farmers could...
...there three times, I think. Once to get out something of Smollets', and twice to get a look at a reference book, but both times that I tried to go there to grind, I couldn't get in, because the place was shut up, soon after lunch, owing to lack of energy on someone's part to light the ranch,-Lux in temebris is evidently no motto for our enlightened authorities. Here we have 'rent and care of room, $80.' Yes, that's right enough as far as rent goes, but how about care? Look at that mantelpiece...
...Sketch Club, so successful at Princeton a few years ago, which had died from lack of interest has been revived. A professional artist will be engaged to give instruction...
...money spent upon English in these less favored institutions of learning will undoubtedly seem small, but in proportion to the money and means at their disposal, it is undoubtedly by no means as small as would appear at first sight. Often, however, the study of English, from a lack of funds, has to be associated with the study of some other language or branch of learning. Yet In spite of these disadvantages, for the last few years the study of English has rapidly increased and now takes a front rank in the curriculum of the southern academies and colleges...