Word: lacking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Lack of proper interference and a poor defense against forward passing are Yale's weakest points in the opinion of the Georgia players, who were chagrined at having lost by but a single point but admitted that the whistle alone prevented Yale from scoring another touchdown. All were loud in their praise of Captain Lovejoy and the ends and backs but none of them thought that the Yale team was as formidable as they had expected it to be. One of the Southern backs was heard to remark after the game: "If we'd known how poor they were...
...should be met by indignant silence, the suspicion is aroused that a pedantic hankering after specific facts has clouded his conception of what education is, or ought to be. One might retain from his schooling the answers to all the above questions, and much more besides, and yet lack education in its true sense...
Many communications to the CRIMSON in that year reveal the great amount of hostility that was created by this lack of unanimity. The Chairman of the Independent Democratic forces, supporting Cleveland and Hendricks, appealed to the class of 1885 to join the Democratic ranks because Massachusetts Institute of Technology had thrown in their lot on the side of the Democrats, a fact which was untrue. An angry Republican immediately wrote the CRIMSON and said, "Now it may be asked if Harvard can, in respect to itself, turn out with a party which takes such shady methods to secure our presence...
...weather yesterday did not stop Coach Haines' from giving his Freshmen crew candidates their first work-out on the good ship "Leviathan". With the 20 oars swinging in anything but perfect unison, the huge barge swept up and down the Charles with each new set of candidates. This total lack of symmetry is explained by the fact that none of the oarsmen ever rowed in a shell, and the resemblance they bore to the sweep-swinger slaves in the "Sea-Hawk" will probably disappear after a few weeks more under Coach Haines. The "Leviathan" has proved a successful invention, however...
...outstanding weakness of the present age in dealing with the political problem", according to Professor Babbitt, "is its lack of historical perspective. Few moderns are able to judge the present in the light of the past, and what we most need at this juncture in our national affairs is the power to appraise the demagoguery of the present in the light of the political past." To quote a sentence from Professor Babbitt's latest book, La Follette is a good example of "the progressive who has repudiated the past, barely tolerates the present, and is at home imaginatively only...