Word: lacking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Conditions were ideal when the two shells lined up at the railroad bridge at 7.15 o'clock after being brought down stream lvy the launches. A slight following tide was behind the crews while the lack of wind obviated any trouble in this direction. Starting out on practically even terms the rival eights reached the mid-way mark with little to choose between them. At this point the Freshman and Combination crews took up the challenge and all four went on up the course together...
There is little doubt that the average undergraduate is sorely handicapped by his lack of training in systematic application. It is taken for granted that he knows how best to use his time, how best to take notes, to read, to review. As he generally knows none of these things, he wastes much time and effort. To the suggestion that a course in "How to Study", be given to all freshmen it has been objected that no definite system can be prescribed which will meet the needs of every one. But help could be given to many students by teaching...
...faculty members here but who are loyal to the Administration. They may be critical but we will not have to contend with such an antagonistic group as we have had in the past." The presidential defense then proceeds to admit the curtailment of famous departments, which is attributed to lack of funds, and to attribute the ill feeling to the fact that the president turned out the lights during a radical address by Scott Nearing...
...flying in American aviation. But the "gypsy" pilots, young, inexperienced men who buy obsolete Government equipment for a few hundred dollars a plane, neglect repairs, fly anywhere and secure passengers where and how they can, have a sorry record of 122 accidents and injury to 100 persons. Poor equipment, lack of inspection, poor piloting and stunting were largely responsible for the mishaps...
...Crimson team, with only two weeks of outdoor practice, less than any of the five higher ranking teams, and handicapped by the lack of an indoor pistol range, defeated seven other teams...