Word: lacking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...expect revolutionary changes of the Debating Union is of course absurd. It is handicapped by the lack of tradition and precedent which has more than once proved fatal to undergraduate innovations. But its foundation gains strength from the formation of two opposing wings entirely outside of American political party affiliations. The Liberal side, represented in the Progressive wing, has already been successful in arousing interest. It remains for the Conservative wing so to organize its efforts, that it will draw out the support of the large group of natural conservatives in the University...
...either careless or indifferent in cases that demand individual consideration. Sometimes it is an over-wrought sense of dignity that causes the trouble, sometimes the fallacious theory that every undergraduate delights in trying to "put one over on him"-and at all times there is a sad lack of that kindly humanity appreciated in the Professors...
...close to Hobey Baker's heart and for years his Princeton teams have been forced to depend upon weather conditions or trips to Philadelphia for their ice practice. As a result, year after year Princeton hockey has developed individual stars whose ability has constantly been pulled up short by lack of practice in team-play. This winter for the first time Princeton will be able to do justice to herself...
...Norwegian as soon as he thinks them; and we can carry goods from one part of the country to another by air at the rate of 225 miles an hour. We are faced by the reverse of the problem confronting us before. Whereas society was once handicapped by lack of transportation, it may now suffer from too much of it. Formerly there was at least time to think, a pause to find the truth between two falsehoods. Now we are hurried along by the pressure of the inventions for communication until there is hardly time to consider what...
...outlined the plans for the season and the work that will be done in the period of training before Christmas. He stressed the fact that regular practice was essential not only for squad. A men but for the lower squads as well, and that it was because of the lack of second squad material at the end of the season that a University wrestling team has never beaten Yale...