Word: lacking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...course the United States pursues stability is assured. He should believe that justice, freedom and good order will prevail in the Islands and that no step looking toward independence of the Islands will be taken until the Filipinos themselves are protected against the evils which would unquestionably follow a lack of stability in their governmental institutions...
...taken by two-thirds of the students, and a third year by a scant fifth, most of the students transferring to modern languages or to the sciences at the end of their second year. This arrangement has in the past rendered many good students ineligible for the examinations by lack of either three years of Latin or two years of a modern language, either of which a boy concentrating in school science is generally unwilling to include. This difficulty is entirely removed by the two-year Latin Comprehensive Examination: for while the difficulty of passing the examination itself acts...
Williams College and the University basketball teams will meet this evening in Williamstown, in the first clash in basketball between the two colleges ever held. In a game with Colgate, the first of the Purple five's season, the New York university won 25-19. Lack of team work was the chief cause of Williams' downfall, but since then hard practice has made this defect negligible. Each man on the five is a letter man, to whom Coach Shanahan has had to waste no time teaching fundamentals. Captain Beckwith is the steadiest player, and he and Fargo excel...
...idle and empty old age. This change in ideals is the natural result of an epoch which places Production above Humanity; which strikes a strident note of movies, cheap Lingazines, jazz--anything to take the place of constructive thinking. Chicago's grand opera company is dying for lack of support; the centers of real culture, in the East are very small oases in a very Large desort. These facts disclose a truly lamentable condition; they mean that Ruskin's. "There is no wealth but life" is being discarded for the "Goddess of Getting...
...recent years for a variety of reasons--lack of publicity, the disrupting effect of the war, etc., the work has not proved very extensive, but with the plans for this year firmly laid, a larger scope and activity is expected...