Word: lacking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...against Worcester Academy in the third game of the season on Soldiers Field this afternoon, it will be led for the first time by William Wetmore, the flash quarterback, who was elected captain this week. The mediocre record of the team to date has been largely due to lack of team-play, but definite improvement along this line has been noted in the past ten days, and the election of a captain should weld the eleven into a unit...
There are more than 3,000,000 men and women in the United States pursuing some kind of education after working hours. Heretofore, largely because of the lack of centralized organization, such as exists in England, there have developed all sorts of fake correspondence schools and extension courses which have been fit subject for Mencken and the Babbitt-baters. The new association, under the Presidency of a man like Dean Russell of Teachers College, Columbia, should be able to weed out the shysters and lend a guiding hand to this much abused but potentially excellent development in education...
Outside the University are the cafeteria of the Square. As cafeteria they are not on the whole bad. One can live on their food, if he can pay for it. Realizing their lack of opposition from within the University they charge, this year at all events, exorbitant prices. Unless one limits himself to a barren and unwholesome diet he soon finds a college experience at their tiled board far from inexpensive...
...game was notable for a lack of team-play, caused largely by a brisk breeze that accelerated the progress of the ball in an eccentric fashion. The Crimson players seemed tired from their train journey and made no concerted effort to repulse Amherst's individual rushes. The aiming of shots by the Lord Jeffs was of a brilliant nature. Wilson, outside right for Amherst, sank penalty 30-yard penalty kick in the Crimson net, convincing score...
...Mclancsian department of the Pacific Island collection, an assortment of 80 war clubs, most of them previously stored in the basement for lack of display space, are now on exhibition. Grass skirts, hand looms, and shark-teeth spears 16 feet long are also being shown. Some dancemasks made of human skulls, gum, earth, and lime, are a unique feature of the collection...