Word: lacking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...criticism along with one or two of the vaudeville acts. But tonight improvements are to be looked for in both directions. From the preparations on foot one gathers that there will not be an officer within the doors, and if a single song and dance man errs by a lack of humor this party is not what every one has reason to expect. Nothing but congratulations are due a policy which brings the finest products of metropolitan civilization into the gates of Harvard College...
...bustle of more picturesque travellers. Dull indeed are the ears that have not registered the consternation attendant on the phrase "he isn't sure he can get the car". In fact the less conscientious eavesdropper has found that genuine football pilgrims are characterized by an almost universal lack of assurance...
...Lack of spirit, did I say? Spirit, in the language of the barracks and of the dormitories and the language of these is quite similar), is nothing but a four-letter word meaning intestinal fortitude, an ugly little word known as "guts...
...believe that the undergraduates of today in Cambridge lack the moral courage to back a losing eleven, or a series of losing elevens...
...Obviously the undergraduate body is not united, and it is my humble opinion that its lack of interest is not because of Harvard indifference, but because of lack of spirit on the part of the undergraduates...