Word: lacking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Disgusted with the lack of the "old-fashioned bull bass" in the Cornell glee club, an undergraduate in that university has offered the first heartfelt diagnosis of what is wrong with American education. "What this university needs," he says, "what all American universities need just now, is less intellect and more boys who shave blue and chew tobacco, and who, when they sing in the back room, can produce those rumbling profundo notes from the waist line...
...very irritating appendages. But the greater number of the group are not so dull as this. They commonly believe, first, that victories give 'good advertising,' and second, that victories indicate better than anything else the quality of the undergraduate life, and even of the college instruction and administration. For lack of other standards, they judge the college by this, with which they are familiar...
...work. Taxes of $134,000,000 have come before it for settlement and it has disposed of $60,000,000 of that amount. Gradually it is building up a body of precedent which should simplify future work. But the members of the Board complained that they are hampered by lack of funds. The Budget Bureau has cut $54,000 from their request for a deficiency appropriation for this year, and $190,000 from their request for next year's appropriation...
...knoll near Leuthen, Saxony, stood Defense Minister Gessler of the Reich, last week, with General Mueller, commander of the Saxon Reichswehr, and some seventy of the highest officers of the German Army. Before them a body of infantry "advanced" toward the town in "war games." Lest the maneuvers should lack reality a battery of heavy machine guns, planted out of sight behind the officers, prepared to lay down a "protective barrage" before the infantry as it advanced...
...lack of organization in the beginning of play against Yale allowed the Elis to pile up five goals in the first chukker, and though the excellent defense work of Captain R. A. Pinkerton '27 kept further tallies down to a considerable degree, the Crimson players were unable to overcome the Bulldog's heavy lead, losing...