Word: lacking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...presentation, and the conviction that the surest preventative is to withold information. There may also exist the belief that official disbursement of publicity material will be interpreted as the activity of a university anxious to find itself on the front pages as often as possible. But it is definite lack of appreciation of the meaning and value of properly controlled publicity that is assuredly present in circles of Harvard authority...
...questions. The problems facing the College which President Lowell touches on are by no means unrelated to conditions elsewhere under his jurisdiction. Imperative changes recommended in the curriculum of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences derive directly from altered standards in undergraduate academic circles. It is in the lack of comprehension of such interrelations, which is dependent upon his limited viewpoint, that the undergraduate fails generally to achieve an intelligent interest in his own affairs. To make him University-conscious, in the sense of making him keenly aware of a kinship with other schools, is impossible, but such illumination...
...Liberty cut air funnels toward San Juan, Porto Rico. From that point a tangential trip was made to St. Thomas in the Virgin Islands. Governor Waldo E. Evans played host. Bewailed was the lack of famed Virgin Island rum, but St. Thomas is U. S. territory. Back in San Juan, Publisher Patterson and Daughter Alicia paid a call on Governor Horace M. Towner, who still hears hurricanes in his ears. During the following evening some gasoline floating on the harbour water exploded. Engineer Sutter was blown off the nose of the Liberty. Radioman Roe came hurtling out of the cabin...
Americans Lack Culture...
...Seldes belong? Judging from his college record I shall decline to answer for fear of incurring his enmity. Nevertheless how can he, even though he had a rather broad view as a member of the Socialist club, from his group position give a picture of Harvard? He displays absolute lack of knowledge of the other five. During his college career he mingled with a particular group, belonged to that group--and to-day from that group position he attempts to give an idea of the college using that group as a standard. No wonder he deplores the Harvard product...