Word: lacking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...institutions of the University were relics of the past and have outgrown their usefulness. The conviction has been expressed in sporadic outcroppings of student opinion on various matters affecting undergraduate life, but these spasms of expression have usually been short-lived, dying a natural death because of the lack of any organized and energetic support among the students. These smouldering embers of discontent were again inflamed a few months ago, and by the number of opinions which have been published and the interest which has been shown among the undergraduates, this movement seems to promise some definite results...
...difficult to comprehend the type of student who has neither regard for property rights nor the code of honour among users of the University Library. Even more does the lack of any sense of value displayed by these Vandals challenge explanation. At its best, this sort of thing is reminiscent of the penciled moustache on the High School statue of Apollo; at its worst it approaches the mentality of the urchin who chalks his meagre store of profanity on fences and telegraph poles...
...books to replenish the store from which these libraries are furnished, and to fill the boxes of books being sent to each outgoing ship. The committee suggests that reading on board ship is as important for the professional sailor as it is for the casual traveller. The present-day lack of pirates and mermaids leaves reading as almost the only amusement of seamen in idle moments...
Regrettable Lack of Reticence...
...Albert Shaw's Review of Reviews will not say whether the American people are unpatriotic in their lack of interest in politics or whether the newspapers are criminally negligent in failing to print political news. But the following paragraph diplomatically scolds either the press or the public or both...