Word: lacking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Cubs. In the polls of expert opinion conducted every year before the baseball season starts, the Cubs last spring were generally picked to finish fourth A team composed of young if not untried players they appeared to lack the batting strength of the world champion Cardinals, the pitching of the New York Giants. While the Giants were getting off to a nine-game lead by the Fourth of July the Cubs lived down to their rating in fourth place. In August the Giants went into a sudden decline for the second year in a row and the Cardinals caught...
...destined him to achieve the illustrious rank of "Harvard Institution". As if the Copelands and Kittredges did not amply fill their roles of arch-indiosyncrasists in University life, the humble section man aspires, very unwisely, to work up through the intermediate grade of Temperamental Professor and supply the lack of eccentricity among the Gods of Learning...
...remainder of the program, news reel and educational (?) short, is rather better than usual. The current show at the Fine Arts may not be outstanding from a strictly artistic viewpoint, but it does not lack interest, and real beauty of production...
...safe to say that less than ten per cent of the Freshmen are benefited by their infrequent meetings with their advisers. The lack of opportunity for individual work accounts for the fact that the first year is considered of little value intellectually. To make it of value, Harvard must extend the tutorial policy to the last half of the Freshman year...
...cool field general and an excellent punter, Haley will be missed by the team and its supporters. But the lack of evasion with which the problem has been resolved is fairest both to the Athletic Committee and Haley...