Word: lacking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Harvard's play after the first period was a bit off-color, the offense failing to click because of lack of team work. Most of the playing was individual with Putnam and Cunningham bearing the burden of it. Garrison, playing his first game at defence also contributed several neat plays. The goalie situation however advanced no farther because the B. U. forwards were practically unable to break through and give Harvard's net-tenders a fair test. Ellis played the first and third periods and Draper relieved him during the second stanza. Both of them had so few opportunities, however...
...this percentage is a little drastic to apply to Harvard. Red Books, managerships, Student Councils run on and on, and though they lack the fine flavor of campus prestige that once surrounded them, they have a harmless, and often a pleasant place, in the slowly disintegrating entity of Harvard life...
...even come from without-who knows? I can remember . . . that I sat with my father in our home in a little town in England and heard him read in the newspaper about the fall of Richmond. . . . One of the great troubles with our young people today is their lack of respect for authority and law. . . . They want to kiss their way through life...
Undoubtedly, the mating of two persons with marked similar talent in music, art or politics will produce offspring endowed with the same talent. But, "clanbred talent" tends to produce experts with a decided lack of understanding of things outside their own sphere. Such progeny are likely to be dull and stupid, cherishing rigid forms and traditions. Genius, on the other hand, results from the crossing of dissimilar high mental traits resulting in a complicated psychological structure in which the components of two strongly opposing germ plasms remain in polar tension throughout life. This tension exerts a driving force and produces...
...liar, forger, adulterer, seducer, jailbird, he was still a "student of humanities . . . connoisseur of the arts and sciences, philosopher, dramatist and poet." A worldly man, with few illusions, Casanova had some profound convictions. "It was one of his staunchest beliefs, one that he retained to his dying day, that lack of sexual expression is followed by a mortal illness." Though his memoirs are never wholly to be believed, the two adventures of which he was proudest (the escape from the Leads and the duel with Branicki) seem to have been authentic. Author S. Guy Endore bases his account of Casanova...