Word: lacking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Exeter team last year, made a name for himself as a schoolboy player. Farnham also won the Interscholastics at Cambridge last spring; and during the summer distinguished himself in several tournaments in the Middle West. He has a rather slow serve and stroke, but his unvarying steadiness offsets his lack of speed...
...Freshmen, H. A. Wood, T. D. Blair-Smith and A. W. Dole were the best, but the formation of a 1924 team was impossible, due to the lack of experience of the yearlings in most of the events...
...that it was the first university of which he had ever been inside the walls. He was then in the heyday of prominence; but I notice already that he appears less often in print and his name is less currently on the lips. The unschooled mind is likely to lack staying power. It can be clever, brilliant, up like a rocket; but if it doesn't always come down like a stick it is likely, still like a rocket, to have its stars go out unexpectedly...
...proposal of the negative that Ireland be given independence would not work because of the lack of a capacity for government in the Irish people. A republic would not give Ireland economic prosperity, stability, nor protection. What Ireland desires is not relevant to the argument; her best interests are what the case is concerned with. The arguments of the negative fall because their alternative proposal is impossible
...visit of members of the Intercollegiate Conference will serve further to set right some current misnomers about the University. Harvard has often been accused of aloofness and lack of cordial feeling toward other, less ancient seats of the higher education. She has failed at times to display the enthusiasm commonly exhibited elsewhere is receiving visiting teams; the premature refusal on the part of the Student Council to sponsor the conference might also have been interpreted as evidence of coldness. By fostering friendly intercourse between "courteous host and all-approving guest" --to use Byron's words--, Harvard will help to dispel...