Word: lacking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Friction arising from mismanagement and lack of cooperation between the local and foreign directorates of the school has led to a temporary recall of the Harvard representative, in an effort to smooth out a situation that has grown complicated. The director of the school, E. Telford Erickson who has engaged in an extensive series of lectures in support of the school throughout the country during the past year, is returning this summer to engage in conference to discuss the future policy and organization of the school...
...figures particularly emphasize the lack of adequate indoor facilities essential to winter athletics. The completion of the new gymnasium will remedy this condition, and should prove a stimulus to increased participation in all winter activities. Parallel to the transference of undergraduate indoor sports to the new center the graduate schools will be able to expand from their present restricted hours to a fuller utilization of the old gymnasium...
...coldest cold," i.e., the nearest approach to utter lack of heat, which man has yet achieved, was attained at the University of Leyden last week. Professor W. H. Keesom, physicist chief of the cryogenic (cold-producing) laboratory there, accomplished the difficult and hazardous feat by solidifying helium gas. He reached 458.58° below Fahrenheit Zero, or 273.1° below Centigrade Zero. He was only .82° Centigrade above Absolute Zero, the cold end of the scale which scientists use to measure temperature independently of the properties of any substance...
Then came forward Mr. Filene. Information on European wages, said he, would be valuable to all U. S. businessmen. U. S. Prosperity would increase if European wages rose. Therefore he would guarantee the Labor Office $25,000 to conduct its research. A good cause should not suffer from lack of funds...
...month comes as another proof of the amicable relations of official Princeton and Harvard. As chairman of the Princeton Board of Athletic Control Professor Kennedy has shown time and again since the break between the two institutions that his feelings toward Harvard are most cordial. There has been no lack of good will between him and Mr. Bingham...