Word: lacking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Washington degrees will be reduced to three: in Law, Arts, Sciences. Extracurricular activities will be minimized, optional courses curtailed, the whole curriculum made more rigid, the student workday lengthened. Vocational education, except in Law, is to be gradually reduced in accordance with Governor Hartley's lack of sympathy for it. Reason given for the whole change is the need for economy. The university administration's overhead comes to $125,000 a year. President Spencer has refused to say how much the consolidation would reduce this. Said Matthew Hill, best-known Washington alumnus: "Oppressive taxes and the public...
This amazing criticism can only be explained on the theory that you have not read the platforms, for whatever else may be said of the Democratic platform, the criticism that it is "not clear to the understanding" is a confession of lack of intelligence on the part of the critic, or lack of knowledge of what it contains...
...feel that Seabright is taking a mercenary outlook on the game and is doing much to impair the desirable spirit of amateurism. As your guests we feel that we should be treated as such and that your failure to do so in the past has shown a lack of regard for the players...
Broadway knew "Flo" Ziegfeld for his temperament, his lavishness, his lack of humor, his publicity-madness. Broadway liked him nonetheless. Since the 1890's his short figure, his broad, pink face, thick nose and sharp eyes had been familiar to theatregoers. But he never let the public forget that his father had founded the Chicago Musical College, that his second job ?his first was with Buffalo Bill's show? was that of manager of the college. In 1892 he went to Europe to get orchestras for the Chicago World's Fair. On their failing, he went to New York...
...matter." Announced reason: an article headlined, WHY DON'T THE WORKERS RAISE HELL? Flaying the Unemployed for cowardice the article demanded: "Can any one . . . visualize a Texan, or a man from Kansas or Kentucky, permitting, 50 years ago, him self to starve, or his family to suffer from lack of food? So long as there was a dollar's worth of food in the country, and his rifle or revolver was in working order, either of these oldtimers would have procured that food if he had to wade through blood to get it! . . ." Whether or not the offending...