Word: lacking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...explained by Dean Pound, the change was made through lack of suitable facilities to deal with the increasing numbers of students...
...pile up the Harvard score by taking second place, or four points. And of the four leading squaws, not the least is A. M. Carrillo '26, who is doing yeo-man (F) duty in lobby and rotogravure display. Mr. Lyon, the dowager, makes up in elevation what he may lack in the delivery of lines. The heavy comedy falls to the lot of R. F. Burke '25, as a rum-raiding constable, and of E. S. Daniell Jr. '26, as a captain of industry. Mr. Burke is constantly on the verge of being wildly grotesque, while Mr. Daniell...
...success that usually attends any operation of purely routine mechanics. Once the volunteer has been presented to the settlement house, however, he ceases to be of interest. He is given no idea of the problems he may expect to meet, and when he fails, as he frequently does from lack of experience or discouragement, not the slightest attempt is made to readjust him or to sustain his flagging enthusiasm. The Social Service Committee acts as a mere clearing station--not in any sense of a stimulating center of social thought. The hi-weekly reports which have been asked of settlement...
...Lack of working space, shelves, and unds for clerical assistance have made it impossible to place much of the recently acquired material at the disposal of the students. For instance, a statistical collection of several thousand volumes and pamphlets on commerce and industry was received from the New York State Library, but has been left a boxes in the basement of Widener library...
...find it somewhat difficult to express the indignation that I feel after reading the current issue of the Bean Pot. I do not expect a comic periodical to be dignified in tone nor entirely truthful. I look for a degree of exaggeration in its columns. Existing standards condone the lack of dignity and truthfulness which characterize many of these publications...