Word: lacking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...over 10 percent of the people are literate, probably not over 10 percent of the children of school age are actually in Scholl and when one considers the financial resources of the country, the task of providing universal education seems almost impossible. One should not infer that illiteracy and lack of intelligence are the same thing. The Chinese are a highly intelligent race and if they can have the benefit of schooling they can become exceedingly efficient...
...Saturday. Numerous changes were made in the seating orders, but no definite grading will be announced until tomorrow when Dr. Howe and Coach Bert Haines hope to have a more final ranking in effect. The chief obstacle now to be remedied in the yearling boats is a uniform lack of weight, no combination at present averaging more than 168 pounds; this is one of the chief points under consideration by the coaches in picking a first yearling eight...
...Hasty Pudding, it is true, have small stages of their own, but the Dramatic Club and the "47" Workshop lack theatres of any description. The Dramatic Club has carpenter shop quarters on the top floor of Sever: "47" has similar accommodations in a portion of Massachusetts Hall, where the company must rehearse, and make and store sets for the plays. When a play is to be staged, the Dramatic Club hires Brattle Hall, which is not only unavailable for many rehearsals and inconvenient for stage management, but also is expensive. Furthermore the floor is not properly pitched; the seating capacity...
...club workers and as speakers. This volunteer work was as usual the most important and most successful work of the Social Service Committee. This opportunity for college men to help in settlement work in Boston and vicinity is one of the greatest which Phillips Brooks House extends. Handicapped through lack of experience the Secretary has been rather slow in getting under way, but reports of this work received by telephone and mail have been very assuring of the good work done by Harvard...
There is an old verse somewhere, "How are the mighty fallen!" which may well apply to the Classics. Four hundred years they held complete sway over literature and scholarship. Not to know Greek was to lack culture, not to read Latin was to be partially illiterate. Yet today it is a confession, calling for excuses and apologies, to admit concentration in the Classics. One feels almost ashamed to be seen leaving a Greek course, the old classical library has fallen into the hands of the Business School, and only one table has been saved from the ruin for those...