Word: lacking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...year, starting its season after the Yale football game, and will compete with Brown, Syracuse. West Point. Dartmouth, and Yale, all of whom. Ulen point out have had teams for as long as twenty years. For this reason, asserts the coach, Harvard is bound to suffer greatly from comparative lack of experience and can scarcely hope for a very imposing string of victories. By the end of the year however. Harvard should have mastered the fundamentals and at the close of its fourth season should have built up a team that is on a par with its rivals...
...time undergraduates will be admitted who have secured invitations in advance at the Library. This is the first time in the history of the Morris Gray talks that undergraduates have been invited in large numbers. Hither-to the meetings have been limited to a small group, due to the lack of a suitable room in the Library...
...regular schedule when it journeyed to California for a game with Oregon in 1920. Since that time, the idea has always been frowned upon because of such tendencies as overemphasis, absence from classwork and the dubious practicality' of continuing a sport season beyond its usual period. The evident lack of the names of responsible officials, both in the personnel of the two universities and the Red Cross, seems a direct refutation of the scheme advanced in the press...
...myth-conscious? Not by a long shot, not by many generations. But national-myth-lovers feel a lack, wish to hurry a natural process and supply some U. S. legends readymade. Here is Frank Shay's gallant attempt. He has gathered (and perhaps embroidered) yarns about ten mythical U. S. heroes. Says he: "Their achievements are exaggerations. Their sagas are tales of the impossible. They are as American as our national weakness for boasting. They are, after all, ourselves as we might wish to be." Among Shay's figures...
...spite of an admitted lack of emotional insight, Mr. De Casseres would consider Mencken the greatest stimulator of his age. He says, "Huneker and Mencken did more than any other two men of the century to thin the ranks of the literary stud-horses of Vassar and the fillies of Harvard." Mr. De Casseres forgets that at times he himself is nothing more than a just-mad gelding going through the motions of an aphrodisiacal stallion. But that is the privilege of one whose prose and thought, to twist his own words, "is a boreal rhetoric, a hissing, headlong ecstasy...