Word: lacking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...reach the goal of a degree, said Professor Wood of Columbia in the New York Times yesterday. These statistics are no bomb-shell to Harvard alumni and authorities. They indicate that a college course is merely like any other occupation that there is always a percentage which, because of lack of earnestness, preparation, and for other reasons, is crowded out in the competition. A majority of those more fit survive...
...support of this theory of the lack of irritation. Dr. Kirkpatrick quotes several members of the faculty as characterizing the system under the present executive as "ideal". "Dean Pound", he adds, "says there is a good deal of irritation beneath the surface but thinks that the present form of government will continue indefinites...
...vagueness and uncertainty as to the purpose of the fund attributed to a few of the collectors is perhaps more truly due to their unwillingness to enter into the spirit of the thing than to any lack of proper instruction. In a group of over one hundred collectors it is possible that a few may not do their best, and this is probably proven by the fact that 22 of the original group of collectors assigned did not even reply to the request of the committee. Every possible effort was made to instruct the collectors individually on the opening night...
...unprecedented lack of response which the drive has inspired among the undergraduates has been attributed by the committee to several causes. They believe that this year's campaign is at a decided handicap because it is coming so late in the college year. Last year it was carried on in January before the members of the University had been called upon to make so many charitable donations and consequently was much better received. They do not feel, however, that this can alone be a sufficient cause, as this fund has always been the largest of any subscribed...
Certainly the increased attendance at football games has not diminished the surplus which formerly accrued to the Athletic Association each year. It can not be the lack of funds that prevents the building of a new gymnasium, swimming pool, or baseball cage. The reasons for this postponement would interest the undergraduates...