Word: lacking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...work of instruction. It would be difficult, however, to justify the establishment of a Graduate School for the sole purpose of perfecting teachers in craftsmanship. Not that this is unimportant; indeed it is highly desirable, and many teachers fail or are less effective than they might be for the lack of a properly supervised apprenticeship: but even the practical training of a novice, to say nothing of more advanced study on the part of experienced workers, can not be well conducted apart from the much broader and more difficult work of training men and women for the supervision and direction...
...corps" and a feeling of co-operation which cannot otherwise be attained. In recent years Harvard undergraduates, following the easiest course, have gradually turned over to the college authorities the management of the principal student activities, with the exception of class elections. Last fall's episode showed a surprising lack of interest in our only remaining student function...
...went on to show that aviation was poorly developed in this country, partly because of the lack of proper navigation and licensing laws. "You can travel from London to Paris in two hours for $18" he declared showing the commercial possibilities of the aeroplane...
...Philip Hale, in reviewing for the Boston Herald, Ben Ami's performance in "Samson and Delilah" at the Wilbur, regrets that Ben-Ami did not have a better play. He complains of the theatricalness of many of the scenes and of the general lack of skill in the treatment of the theme. Most of his criticism is true enough; yet We felt at the time and do now that Ben-Ami would have had trouble to have found another vehicle so admirably suited to his talents in many respects as is this work Sven Lange...
...needed a play in which the environment would not be unnatural to him; In Samson and Delilah he found such a play, from curtain rise to curtain fall it is imbued with the spirit of the Slav. In its frequent, terribly effective appeals to the stage; in its lack of sentiment and its slow, careful development of the plot, it is distinctly the vehicle...