Word: lacking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Dartmouth paradoxically believes in both extremes. But not for a minute do we countenance any justification for the existing lack of sympathy between the two groups. In fact, we believe such differences as are alleged to exist are unnecessary and should be revealed as such...
...Loan Library has proved very popular. This year over 1200 books were loaned out and the demand far exceeded the supply. The lack of scientific books, especially those on physics and chemistry, was particularly noticeable this year...
...Oxford's trivial, traditional regulations- gowns for classes, hours for going home at night, bans on public and private dances and on hotels and restaurants not licensed by the Vice-Chancellor, "gating"* and fining for offenses. He wrote of the pitfall of idling that gapes for "men who lack pronounced will power and pertinacity." He wrote of Oxford's unwholesome, antisocial, velvet-suited, rose-carrying, pseudo-aesthetes, and of the brilliant, insincere, stimulating, dangerous-to-the-guileless-American Oxford conversationalists...
...science need not, and does not impair the fundamental structure of our faith. The only iconoclastic result of this expedition will be to destroy permanently the influence of those pompous and inaccurate historiasters of the last century who have falsified the sequence and meaning of past events by their lack of scientific method, their reliance on traditional literature and their wilful neglect of contemporary documents and archaeological evidence. Their day, or rather, their night is over; for the literary dilletante cannot face the pure light of historical truth which emanates from this epoch-making report...
...survey should convince any intelligent person, apart from the judgment of experts, that these buildings could never have been a late copy made in the twentieth-century manner of servile imitation, for they reveal a mixture of styles and experiments which show a genuine creative spirit despite an obvious lack of technical knowledge...