Word: lacking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Laughlin, Yale '26: Too decentralized, with a consequent lack of college spirit...
...Hoagland, Yale '26: "One thing which is disadvantageous to the College is that the University is top heavy with graduate schools. The club system and decentralization policy, which cause a lack of unity here, are all right for a certain type of man, who can depend upon his individuality to put himself across...
...Michel, Yale '26: "I notice especially the lack of a unified spirit at Harvard, perhaps because Yale is predominantly a college, with comparatively few graduate students...
There are numerous illustrations in the book. They are all interesting, but are not, as a rule, strictly relevant to the text. In commenting on this fact and on the lack of substantiating footnotes, the reviewer is fully aware of the difficulty of obtaining authoritative matter strictly relevant to the particulars of the subject in hand. For it must be remembered that the Mongol of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries were for the most part illiterate. Most of the contemporary accounts of Genghis Khan must be sought in works in Chinese and Persian...
...Lamb has given us a colorful and stirring account of the career of a great conqueror, and if we may criticize the lack of documentation, we must remember the intrinsic difficulty of the subject and be thankful for a thoroughly readable account of what in other hands might be a very heavy subject...