Word: lacking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Captain R. B. MacPhail, Dartmouth quarterback, and other members of the victorious Green football machine, attributed the failure of Harvard to capitalize its scoring opportunities to a lack of diversified offensive plays. When interviewed after the game last Saturday, MacPhail told a CRIMSON reporter that Harvard had tremendous power, but that it was not concentrated in the right channels for consistent scoring...
...course so that it is understood and assimilated? If the Freshman can be made to do that he has learned something-about the course, to be sure-but, what is more important in the future, about how to study, how to master a subject in spite of a lack of interest...
This tendency, the CRIMSON believes, is to be commended, together with the change in student and official athletic attitude which permits a student to make his own way, free from any stigma of disloyalty to his obligations or that most heinous of Early Twentieth Century charges, lack of College Spirit...
After we have sped through a maze of humor, which makes up in quantity what it lacks in quality (as the saying goes), and if we have been able to speed through this maze of humor, we will light upon the second part of the book with great relish. The author has conveniently, though perhaps not wisely, divided into two sections the story of his wanderings up the valley of the Dinder River into the foothills of the Abyssinian border. The first he uses to question the reader and himself on "Why do men do it?; the second to answer...
...suspected that Mr. Schmalhausen was a rather close spiritual relative of Mr. Sinclair or Mr. Gundelfinger after the first ten pages. He has the same savagery, the same sense of outraged righteousness, the same lack of a sense of humor. "The Goslings," Mr. Upton Sinclair's study of the American schools was brought to light for comparison. Mr. Sinclair states in the first page of his introduction that the purpose of his book is to show how the "invisible government of Big Business which controls the rest of America has taken over the charge of your children;" on the second...