Word: lacking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...failure of the popular preferential primary is not to be found with the Old Guard. They have always been in the habit of taking things as they come and adapting them to their own ends. The point where the present form of primary fails is in the lack of interest which it arouses among the voters. It would seem, this year of all years, that there were burning issues to draw the attention of the most delinquent citizen, but the figures show that not ten percent of the Republican voters of the country expressed their opinions in the primaries just...
Surely Harvard night this year was less enjoyable than in former years, owing to the absence of the usual jolly and traditional songs, and also, it might be said, to the almost total lack of encores...
...intellectual centres, especially at so cosmopolitan a university as Harvard, such blindness to what is going on, such lack of interest, and such lack of information and suggestive discussion is far from salutary. As a definite step to illuminate the question for ourselves and perhaps for others, may we not suggest that several lectures be given by a member of the Faculty familiar with the situation, and by some prominent Japanese? In any case, something of the sort ought to be done at Harvard to clear up a situation whose very laziness forbodes evil. A. E. MIRSKY...
...work. Oklahoma, Kansas and Nebraska start reaping their wheat in the latter part of June, and with the present shortage of labor, need at the help they can get. It is a tremendous task to gather a harvest in the vast western fields, and under the handicap of a lack of men, it appears well-nigh overwhelming. Outside of the work itself, then, employment harvest help is essentially patriotic. Physically, it offers healthful exercise in the outdoors; the exertion and the novelty are not too great for the average college man. As for wages, seventy cents an hour and board...
...possible that some readers of the CRIMSON may have gained the impression from the news story appearing in Wednesday's issue that the Hoover League of Harvard has disbanded because of lack of interest or discouragement. this is not the case. The action of the executive committee was taken to carry on more effectively the campaign to win the Republican nomination for Herbert Hoover. Since the straw ballot has shown that Harvard favors Hoover by a two to one majority over the nearest competitor, and since the academic year is drawing to a close, the executive committee decided that...