Word: lacking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...applied. Boards of trustees should determine policies and concern themselves chiefly in employing a great, competent executive who can be trusted to exercise authority and responsibility and whose advice on the many problems of hospital management can be depended upon as being sound and impersonal. When there is a lack of confidence on the part of governing boards in the executive who should represent them, there will be unrest, discontent and even disloyalty, permeating the whole organization." - Dr. Christopher G. Parnall, Rochester (N. Y.) Gen eral Hospital. Personnel. A low standard of morale and tawdry esprit de corps in hospital...
...returns to Manhattan, to the waiting arms of Lydia van Ruysdyck. They marry. He leaves for the Civil War. Says Lydia,: "I think des- tiny is just another word for life. ..." The author has handled the personages of 1855-60 with a casual ease that his own creations lack. In addition to Messrs. Vanderbilt and Walker, it is Journalist Horace Greeley, Shipowner "Liveoak George" Law, and Abraham Lincoln who pop up at old moments to make the book plunging, rawboned historical fiction...
...horns, was enough to prove that we are not congenitally unforensic, that we are capable of that collective adventuring along paths somewhat dubiously intellectual but undoubtedly attractive which lies at the heart of the Cambridge or of the Oxford Union. And it is hardly to be said that we lack that intellectual immaturity which is a prerequsite for debating skill...
...Common rooms in turn. The speakers for these meetings have been scheduled long in advance and they have not always been men familiar to the fist year undergraduates. Consequently, the lectures were not generally attended, even it the start of the year. The remedy proposed for this lack of interest will be a kind of Australian ballot system by which lectures popular among the Freshmen will be obtained. The system will be thoroughly explained tonight...
There is no question, but that the modern university president must love his task, for it is a tremendous, often impossible one. Dr. Kirkpatrick's suggestion of the eventual sharing of the presidential responsibility among a small group only lacks the assurance that such a group would work better together, that they would accomplish more, and, at least the President of Harvard University would agree that such an establishment was an approach to the perfect in university administration. Dr. Kirkpatrick can only hope for such cooperation. Could he promise that the faculty, now striding the twin steeds of scholarship...