Word: lacking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that occasion a large section of the spectators displayed their own lack of sportsmanship by "booing...
Twenty years ago, all the philanthropic work in the University was done by several scattered organizations, with lack of coordination and cooperation Today all these societies and committees are housed under one roof with all the efficiency and economy resulting form centralization of effort and administration. Twenty years ago, this work was confined to the College. Today Brooks House has self-supporting organizations in all the graduate departments of the University, each of them a Brooks House in miniature...
...other men are experienced-players. The Pennsylvanians have as yet played no intercollegiate games, but two contests, one with Montclari, New Jersey, Athletic Club and the other with the Staten Island Cricket Club, have resulted in losses, 3-2 and 3-1 respectively. This by no means signifies a lack of strength in the Blue and Red, for these two teams are considered the strongest amateur elevens in the East...
...forced to grope their way through the dark passages of the Stadium after the game, Secondly, it is considered that the chance of injury to the players them- selves is materially increased if part of a game is played in semi-darkness. In addition it is pointed out that lack of light is not conductive to good football and is extremely trying on the eyesight of the thousands of observers who throng the Stadium every Saturday afternoon...
...important function which the University Squash Courts in Randelph Gymnasium are intended to fulfill is, under the present system--or lack of it--entirely unfulfilled. That function is to offer to students who have but little time to spare from their studies an opportunity to get a certain necessary amount of regular exercise; and the reason they fail to do this is that the usual system of signing up for courts has been neglected. There is no patent reason for such neglect; and there is a patent reason why the sign-up system should be put in force...