Word: lacking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...word of general criticism may not be out of place here. Although the essays are good in content, there is a noticeable lack of style in them, a defect surely worth remedying. Again, verse of a higher quality ought to be procurable in a college as well provided with poets as Harvard. This issue of the magazine is above all, lacking in stories of compelling interest, although "Chowder" is an approach to what might be done in this direction...
...Class of 1924 undertakes today to choose its leaders for the first time. Juniors and Sophomores in the fall elections showed a deplorable lack of enthusiasm in their repeated failure to return the necessary number of votes; the Freshman may well profit by their shortcomings...
More striking than this similarly in their records, is the fact that the misfortune of both teams is due to the same cause,--the lack of adequate facilities. In an editorial reprinted below, the Yale News, realizing the hopelessness of successfully carrying on hockey under present conditions, advocates that it be given up until an artificial rink can be built. Under equally disadvantageous conditions for training a swimming team here, it seems advisable to abandon it as an intercollegiate sport until a pool can be built. Such a step would hasten the construction of the pool, and would prevent...
...author of the communication, "The True Scholar", charges the movement on behalf of "recognizing scholarship" with being characterized by the lack of "perfectly clear thinking", and also infers that the recognition of scholarship would not aid in stimulating its pursuit. It seems to me, in spite of this trenchant criticism, very sound reasoning that if scholarship is given the recognition which it justly deserves, equal to that granted to athletics and publications, the more enthusiastic men in college will aspire after it with the same spirit that prompts them to strive for either of the two leading roles of undergraduate...
...Princeton and Yale hockey teams showed their lack of practice Saturday night, when Princeton defeated Yale 4-0 at the Arena, in one of the poorest games that has been played there this winter. Judging by the exhibitions made by the Yale sextet the University should have no difficulty Saturday in doubling the score they rolled up against Yale two weeks ago last Saturday...