Word: lacking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...great surprise to Haeseler that the natives regarded the new experience with perfect equanimity. Even close-ups of pottery-making and weaving were made possible by this absolute lack of self-consciousness. The greatest difficulty coincident with taking these pictures as well as films of other primitive peoples was found in handling the great numbers of spectators who gathered. The operator had to be on the alert for moving shadows on the camera's field of vision. Among people less stolid than the Berbers, the forming of an audience had to be prevented in order to help the subjects overcome...
Even the fact that the editorial staff of the CRIMSON must find or make controversial material for their columns is not a sufficient excuse for the lack of understanding with which the question of a weekly board charge under the House Plan has been approached...
...University provides the House Plan--and the undergraduates accept it as the Senate "accepted" the invitation to the United States to join the World Court. Apparently it is felt that failure on the part of students to bring up objections to the Administration's projects would indicate a lack of independence...
...excuse for this might be put forth if there were any lack of demand for the course, or if it were being taken only by those with a good foundation in the Fine Arts. But the course is filled to overflowing every year with an ever increasing enrolment, while Fine Arts instructors themselves sit back and admit that the situation sadly needs remedying. A majority of students fail to get any real artistic appreciation out of their frenzied memorizing of slides, it is generally conceded and yet it is the assumption when they voluntarily enter the course that they earnestly...
...sincerely doubt that the blame for the evident lack of interest in the recent election can be placed upon the shoulders of the committee in charge. Polls were held at two halls in the Yard and one in the Engineering School from ten until one o'clock. Was not this sufficient time for those interested members of a class to vote. It was suggested that Widener and Mallinckrodt be opened up for a similar period and even in the afternoon. The question is would this be worthwhile in order to secure perhaps twenty-five or thirty votes more? Would...