Word: lacking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This total lack of interest in a project that in theory at least is highly commendable is most disappointing. It might be supposed that students would be more than willing to profit from the guidance of a teacher of Dr. Davison's renown. It might be presumed that Harvard students would enjoy learning to sing their own songs. Certainly such experience would save many moments of hopeless embarrassment at banquets and reunions. At other colleges as the press comment from the Princetonian in the next column indicates, the love of a custom of song services is so deeply in-trenched...
Then Flotsam and Jetsam (The University of Pennsylvania) : "The inheritors of this museum of styles are now trying to impose some sort of unity upon it. . . . What does this confusion, this lack of any sound instinct imply in the education here offered...
...common justice in the eyes of the public is a neglect of the obligation owed to humanity by medical men. Unquestionably doctors are better qualified than any one else to preach sound health, yet they are willing to leave the job to unorganized public opinion. When they feel a lack of public support, they complain that they have no time to defend themselves. This is an age of strenuous advertising, in which every cause, no matter how worthwhile, must constantly justify itself before the public or fall measurably in its success. Physicians may have dignified their business of selling health...
...power to further disarmament. And yet on the very crest of anti-war agitation the United States is unintentionally making it possible for the war feeling to live on. Today thousands of Americans are thinking of the Lusitania with renewed malice. Those who realize the danger of this attitude lack the moral courage to point...
...through any lack of patriotism or through any sympathy with Germany's militaristic regime, that one is led to condemn America's present day manifestations of patriotism. It is rather because America's future is as deeply concerned with world peace as any nations. But never can this be attained until such old grievances as the Lusitania are allowed to sink into oblivion...