Word: lacking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...nation", continued the speaker, who has attained a high degree of prominence in Europe as a student of the modern drama particularly, "but rather a group of 65 million people striving for individualism. To bind this mass the German government acts as a huge vise. This lack of community spirit is due largely to the 27 political parties which flourish in Germany today and to the large number of religious creeds. The dominant note is so largely that of individualism that there are no social sciences taught in the schools and universities. The watchword of the German social life today...
...During the last few years at Harvard," he said, "baseball has fallen into about the worst rut that it has ever known at the University. This is undoubtedly due to a great many causes but the most important one, I believe, is the lack of interest which is shown by the undergraduates. Less enthusiasm and spirit of competition is being shown on the baseball diamond than in any other major sport...
...administration has in the past expected athletics to be self-supporting and not infringe upon resources which the University applies to general educational purposes. The Athletic Association has thus been forced to go upon a basis of rigid economy. The "athletics for all" policy has accordingly suffered, not through lack of interest, but through lack of funds. The Athletic Committee has had no alternative but to decide that "increased annual revenue for athletic purposes should be secured through sources of direct athletic revenue...
...Lack of Practice Hampers...
Yale still showed lack of practice, a handicap the Blue has been laboring under all winter due to lack of an artificial risk and the unreliability of natural ice in the vicinity of New Haven. Only at times did their combination play become dangerous, and their wild shooting rendered futile several dangerous advances into Crimson territory...