Word: lacking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...further announced by the Committee last night that the names of box chairmen whose boxes lack the required number of couples will be printed in the CRIMSON, as provision cannot be made for men without partners until all couples are arranged for. Any persons who have previously been unable to secure places in a box may then arrange with these chairmen before it is necessary for the Committee to take assignatory action. Box applications are numbered as received up to the total that can be assigned, and the positions of the boxes will then be chosen by lot from this...
...hard task is in store for the Freshman hockey team when they face the St. Pauls sextet at 10 o'clock this morning at Concord, N. H. In their losing contest with the University stick-men, the school-boys showed a serious lack of team-work but the individual playing of most of the skaters gave promise of a formidable sextet as soon as Coach Campbell could whip them into an evenly working team. Captain Davis is an especially speedy skater and several times he broke through the University line alone to threaten the Crimson cage. Working with...
...Though lack of substance and lack of though are the chief defects in the Lampoon, the imperfection in form is notable, especially in the verse. Slovenly verse is not funny though it may be ridiculous. Humorous verse requires the greatest perfection of form. A skillful rhymester uses his rhymes to point his wit and obtains additional effects by surprising rhymes. Everyone is familiar with the lamentable effect of even a good joke haltingly and redundantly told by a dullard who remembers it imperfectly and repeats it clumsily. Concise expression, accuracy, and fluency are essentials of wit in verse and even...
...course in dramatics among American colleges. Its object it not to study the drama as literature so much as to take it up as a practical art, recognizing the claim of the creative artist, and giving him this vehicle of practice and self expression. There has long been a lack of understanding and appreciation of the fundamental value and revolutionary character of the work he has been accomplishing, but it is coming to be more and more generally recognized now that the course is no fad, but has the basic idea of a new field to training and service such...
...well-defined feeling among a good many faculty members and students that the next steps which should be taken at Harvard are modification of the lecture and examination systems and further development of the tutorial system. The chief obstacles to these reforms are opposition among the alumni and lack of financial resources...