Word: lacking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Successive defeats contain small encouragement for a team that is handicapped in its development by an utter lack of proper facilities. Swimming at Harvard is constantly waging an uphill fight for the reason that few men care to come out for a sport, provision for which is so palpably neglected. The absence of a pool here is directly responsible for the scanty interest displayed in swimming and the resultant failure of the team to score even a few victories over its opponents...
...injurious effects as well to be taken into account. Not only does an inferior grade of foreign labor lessen available employment for Americans, but it tends to depreciate wages and in some instances practically monopolizes a given field. Moreover, those who do not become a public burden through lack of work, are apt to develop a thrift which impels them to return their savings to their native land...
...scrubs went down to the Charles bank Rinks yesterday for their first practice since early in the mid-year examination period, ending up their workout with a scrimmage which was featured by lack of scoring ability on both sides. St. Mark's has a much weaker team than usual this year, having been blanked by Cambridge Latin and Browne and Nichols, and having just escaped a defeat at the hands of Middlesex about a week...
...subject of introductory courses which, however, from the turn of the last paragraph seems to the reader to have been intended purely as a criticism of one course, namely Fine Arts 1c. How such a thing was ever allowed to be printed I do not know, for besides lacking truth it shows a total lack of sane judgment and also of any ideas of etiquette or of the fitness of a subject for an editorial. I am thoroughly in accord with the thought expressed in the first paragraph, but to illustrate with the course in question the fault that...
...present prospects for this spring's team are doubtful, the drawback being the lack of seasoned pitchers, E. F. Goode '22 being the only veteran on hand. If Coach Slattery is able to develop someone to take the place of W. B. Felton '20, the Crimson will have a well balanced team. Possible men for the pitching berth are H. S. Russell '22, E. L. Bigelow '21, who was tried at this position year before last, and George Owen, the star of the 1923 team...