Word: lacking
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...gorgeous crimson rowing jersey, and the other in a loose flannel shirt. The balance of the men were of medium build, gradually dwindling down to the small but active full-back of the blues, gay in sky-blue campaign blouse and skull cap. There was an apparent lack of canvas jackets, but the increasing demand for those articles on account of the late order of the committee on athletics had depleted the home market, and the players had to content themselves with flannel shirts of various hues, to say nothing of old coats...
EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON.-There seems to be a lack of enthusiasm this year, in the members of Memorial, as regards foot ball contests between different tables. As it has been said several good players have shown themselves in past games and developed into fair candidates for the eleven. Why would it not be an excellent plan to have games between the dormitories ? Hollis and Stoughton would certainly be about equally matched, or nearly so. Then let Hollis and Stoughton set the ball a rolling by having a foot ball game right away. And it might be added that no knowledge...
...Princeton men made up for their lack of numbers by the enthusiasm they showed, cheering the many brilliant plays of their team, and waving their orange and black flags valiantly in the faces of Harvard's supporters...
...shape of a question, and we must confess has not been cut with an answer. Much can be done by a hard working and earnest teacher to keep up the flagging interest of his class, but from the general indifference it is quite evident that there is a lack of system in the art of teaching, and until that is remedied we must be content with what advantages we have. Still in this age of progression such an important fact ought not to pass unnoticed. The elective system has been one great reform in the line of study...
...score in the end must have been due, not to any superiority of Exeter, or this advantage would have been quickly taken by the academy boys without waiting until the last twenty minutes of the game, but to some weakening by our freshmen. This weakess was due to a lack of endurance from want of training, a fault for which at this late season of the fall there is no excuse...