Word: lacking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first score came early in the second period when E. C. Tatham '31 scored on a well placed shot from scrimmage. From this point on the Harvard team kept the ball in enemy territory for the majority of the time, but due to the lack of coordination of the forward line they were unable to score again...
When the Senate sits again (Dec. 3), merry will be the smiles, hearty the chuckles, wise the "cracks," between Republican Floorleader Curtis and Democratic Floorleader Robinson. Campaigning against each other will have altered their mutual feelings no more than it altered the lack of feeling between the Messrs. Smith and Hoover, who never met. "Charlie" Curtis and "Joe" Robinson are friends as good & old as are "Charlie" Curtis and that other "Charlie," Vice President Dawes, with whom Senator Curtis last week shook hands and beamed at cameras on the Capitol steps...
...class football. In a group of men reporting for the game large, earnest, and unwieldy athletes who cannot make the grade on the first or second-string University squads stand beside equally earnest sportsmen whose 130 pounds is a handicap in any football circle. There is a consequent lack of balance in intramural football elevens that detracts from the zest of competition...
Whether its adoption will draw to the field numbers of men who do not play even class football because of a lack of brawn is problematical. Many light men turn to track, crew, and other sports where they are at no disadvantage or special provision is made for them. Football has long been regarded as an oligarchy of the big boys; it may be doubtful whether enough candidates will report to fill out enough teams for a comprehensive schedule, but in their particular effort to attract more men to the game the proponents of the new plan...
...when they come back for their twenty, fifth. Anyone who has occasion to talk over Harvard matters with a group of old grads will testify to the difficulty of bringing the discussion to considerations of discernible importance. And the alumni are no doubt as baffled to understand the lack of sympathy with which they are met by those who are living the best years of their lives...