Word: lacking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...which is resulting ought to put the Club safely at the mercy of the League's "revolutionary" program. It is only fair to say that association with a national organization, however visionary in its aims, will at least give a consistency and backbone to the Club's policy, the lack of which has measurably decreased its prestige at Harvard in recent years...
...flaws touched by Dr. Counts, however, are mainly symptomatic and superficial. The basic shortcoming of the public schools is their lack of purpose. For the most part they are neither cultural nor vocational; they try to be both. There is no definition of the aims of the system. The whole situation betrays one weakness; the inertia of educators, who make very little attempt to diagnose the ills of their machine, and who are so lacking in decision as to be unable to make necessary reforms when glaring faults point to their own remedies. Until officials take the matter in hand...
...Zoological garden, and by the Englishman as a looking glass. He is an American journalist who has braved the agonizing spectacle of English illogical self-deception in every sphere of British activity and inactivity and has been able to write down his observations with conviction, but with complete lack of sentiment, optimism, or pessimism, as far as Britain and her Empire is concerned. He has spent eleven years in the country interpreting the English mind for readers of the New York Herald-Tribune, and now he has produced a searching essay on the English which Americans should not pass...
...concealing from the press the results of its deliberations, the Council fails to fulfil its fundamental obligations to the undergraduate body that it represents. The rampant lack of interest in the Council among the students is largely due to the fact that nothing is ever heard of that group...
Once past its rental-library title, which fits its subject like somebody else's glove, readers of New Author Flannagan's book will pull up only at its end papers, with a sigh. Though dealing with the fairly thoroughly canvassed tragic situation, or lack of situation, of half-breed Negroes in the South, the book tells its story with a ruthless, rare good humor. It is a highly un-saccharine good humor which will remind readers more of Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn than of the Peterkin school of writers on Negro themes. And Author Flannagan, without...