Word: lacking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Inasmuch as most of the support for the University and Freshman teams comes from the Harvard Polo Association, whatever help it decides to give will be of great use to the teams. At the present time the squads have to be cut very stringently, because of the lack of suitable mounts for the players...
...University in the argument with Columbia University were announced last night by E. M. Rowe 1L, debating coach. The team will consist of T. N. Stensland '28, Brooks Otis '28, and Norman Winer '29. Saul Rosenzweig '29, A. L. Raffa ocC., and Barrett Williams '28 will serve as alternates. Lack of time to use the old method of choosing a team forced Rowe to adopt a new system of selection...
...worce than this is the almost total absence of ventilation in the Reading Room. The air is at all times atrociously foul. One is fairly stifled by the carbon dioxide, body odors, and lack of oxygen. It is only after some minutes that one is able to breathe in comfort; and then, almost before one realizes it, the CO2 has begun to act. It makes one sluggish, drowsy, and totally incapable of his best work. Doubtless it explains why we see so many young men indolently gazing off into space while absorbed in the fascinating process of picking their noses...
...lack of chairs and to overcrowding of the Main Reading Room, several important changes have been made in the Library," it was anonunced by W. C. Lane '81, Librarian, late last night...
Tall & Short People. The smallest people in the world are the Negrillos of central Africa and the Aymaras of central South Africa. Almost as short are the Eskimos, Lapps and northern Siberians. They all lack one thing-abundant food. The tallest peoples live along the northern European coasts, along the Baltic, in western Asia, eastern Africa and in the temperate zones of North & South America. Their common possession is abundant food. However there are short peoples (Japanese, Mediterraneans, Central Americans, Fuegians, Malays and southern Asiatics) who have descended from taller stocks and who have an adequate food supply. Because they...