Word: lacking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...exact reason why Harvard has never had a boxing team is rather difficult to discover. Certainly it isn't on account of lack of material, because there have always been more men taking their exercise with the boxing gloves than with the polo mallet; and a polo team has never been criticized as unjustified...
Leaders. While Mr. Morrow will have no official standing as a Senate leader because of his lack of seniority, he will nevertheless be able to exert a strong Hoover influence on the Senate's nominal leadership. Senator James Eli Watson has made such a poor fist of leading the Senate since last April that his Republican followers have been casting about for a means of displacing...
...Lack of official relations forced Comrade Litvinov to send his reply through the same slow grapevine via which he received the U. S. note, namely the French Embassy at Moscow. Correspondents cabled it direct, caused Statesman Stimson's acute embarrassment, placed him in a position where he found it necessary to break a state department rule and comment on a communication from a foreign power before he actually received...
Although the status of minor sports at Harvard has always been secure, there is one outstanding exception; the lack of a University boxing team. Two years ago an informal match was held with Tech, but since that time there has been no attempt whatsoever to establish even a semi-official organization. Consequently the activity is now confined to the annual University tournament, and to instruction with Mr. Conley...
...present there are over 150 undergraduates going to Hemenway Gymnasium three to five times a week to take boxing lessons certainly enough material and enthusiasm from which to form several boxing teams. Nor can the oversight be due to lack of precedent and the four that there would be no matches for such a team. For a number of years both Yale and Dartmouth, to mention but two possible competitors, have had official boxing teams to whose members minor sports letters are awarded...