Word: lacking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...During each of the last two years approximately 15,000 men have applied for admission to the various medical schools in the United States and Canada. Of this number only slightly more than 7,000 could be admitted on account of lack of facilities for taking care of more. Of the number admitted more than 20 per cent have been forced to drop out of the medical school because of lack of sufficient scholastic ability to master the material of the course. Such being the case the Association of American Medical Colleges appointed a Committee to study this problem with...
...greatest advantage its commodiousness. So far as space is concerned few buildings belonging to the University are more comfortable for writing during a three hour period. But it has drawbacks. The time-honored complaint has been that the lighting is abominable. Now this disadvantage has been superceded by the lack of proper heating. Yesterday Memorial Hall was so cold that everyone taking examinations there was distinctly uncomfortable. There can not be adequate reason for a condition of this sort. Unfortunately, due to architectural perculiarities the light cannot be improved, but it does not seem over fastidious to desire that degree...
Economics A took a progressive step in assigning the more able students 'to special sections, but the limit of improvement is by no means reached by this action. The total lack of lectures continues to present an inadequacy. Formerly, regular lectures were given, but it was found that this system was not successful. Accordingly the more efficient section-meeting was substituted, with a reservation for the use of the lecture at any time. The purpose of this reservation, which was to allow a change in cases where it seemed best, has not been realized...
About pascin personally there was very little exquisite or distinguished. He was a soft, pale man, sensual and abnormally sensitive, who abhorred fresh air, never rose till the afternoon, occasionally shaved about 7 o'clock. He was a dipsomaniac. His virtues were his amiability, his lack of personal vanity. He made and kept innumerable friends: at his studio 30 to 40 friends gathered daily to chat while he painted; often he would gather a group of 20, men, women and children, and take them with him to some watering place for weeks at a time...
...than the boisterous and administrative. For this reason he was chosen, as a compromise candidate, after Princeton trustees had been deadlocked for two years in trying to elect a successor to the provocative Woodrow Wilson. But Dr. Hibben took up the reins discarded by that active dreamer with no lack of confidence and soon was working out his own dreams of a university...