Word: lacking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...organizing this department, the University will do much to improve methods of public health work; at present the majority of men in this field have had no specific preparation, and on account of lack of background, have not had the vision to develop many new ideas. True, there are some who have had the mechanical training--builders of sanitary systems, waterworks architects, city planner--; and some who have had adequate medical training; but practically none who have had both. To offer a combined training is the purpose of the new school...
During the course of the play the yearlings were never hard-pressed, the schoolboy players showing excellent form but manifesting an evident lack of experience. Only the match between Rosen of the University and Russ went to three sets, but Ingraham and Parker provided some spectacular playing before the former...
...time to stop. Exhort the track team and the crew and all the rest of our paid athletes (cf. "The Pink", of the paper for people who think) to earn their pin-money; advocate the presentation of Macbeth, with the goodies to participate as witches; deplore the lack of interest in the museums, and the great interest in Turkish Baths--but here is the climax upon which it is wise to cease...
...University players have not been able to hold practice during the latter part of this week due to the weather conditions and this lack of training may be reflected in today's playing...
There is a widespread tendency at present to limit the enrollment of colleges, either because of a lack of facilities or because of the strong feeling which many have against institutions of large size. Swarthmore has seven hundred applications for a Freshman class of one hundred and eighty. Princeton and Dartmouth have set bounds beyond which they cannot go; and some of the smaller colleges have announced that they are filled up for four or five years to come. The few colleges which remain unlimited are in almost every case crowded to the doors...