Word: lacking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Although today is the last day in which compositions for a Freshman class song may be handed in there has been an unusual lack of interest by men of the first year class in this project...
...wisely counseling "in the determination of our educational policy." This request calls rather for a louder beating of tin pans than for silence, for only out of a medley of criticisms can emerge a sound policy of education. And as was vaguely suggested, it is chiefly in the lack of a national policy of a national system that the educational machinery of the country is at fault...
...have implied, is little less than the whole thing. The story holds one's attention; one is impelled to find out just how the daring Anthony Wilding escapes from the web that most of the other characters busy themselves spinning around him. And many of the figures do not lack color. Wilding himself, and his trusty companion Nick Trenchard are well-painted, having both form and substance to a commendable degree. The female characters can hardly be so favorably described. The heroine, Mistress Wilding, is rather a plaster saint of a woman; her occasional distress arouses little sympathy...
...Cortissoz, however, has found a dirth of liberally educated college men. "The lack of education shown by most college graduates with whom I have come in contact is simply appalling," he told the reporter, when interviewed in his downtown office in New York City "I find that most American college men are perfectly content to do just enough work to get their degrees and go no further...
...real purpose of education," he went on, "is to make one think. Examinations and degrees are merely necessary instruments to guide the undergraduate and urge him to go on for himself. The college men I see every day, however, have not trained minds. They lack in imagination and initiative...