Word: lacking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...various difficulties and misunderstandings that Harvard, in the past, has had with the public press have largely been traceable to the lack of adequately intelligent handling of college news. This policy of aloof secretiveness was formed long ago the purpose of avoiding cheap publicity and misrepresentation, but the general public has long since spilt into two groups, those desiring sensational journalism, and those intelligently interested in the news. Publicity with the former class is hardly to be desired, but the latter is too valuable an ally to be continuously offended and ignored...
...first act began very well, but unfortunately a lack of spirit left some of the hilarious possibilities of Shakespeare's comedy untouched. The whole business was carried off well enough, but the joie de vivre necessary for the superlative was lacking. This discrepancy was in all probability owing to the slightly flat antics of Walter Kingsford as Sir Toby Beich and Arthur Hohl's Sir Andrew Aguecheek. For some reason or another they failed to make their foolery convincing...
...undergraduate daily. Straight news is stressed, but human interest stories and interview also fall within the field of the news candidate. The first few days of the competition are devoted to a breaking-in process, and no undergraduate need remain out of the competition on the basis of lack of experience; editors will lend assistance until candidates are able to gather and write their news unaided...
Assisting Coach Carr this fall will be Donald Baker 2G, who will help with the University squads, and N. R. Danielian '28, who will have charge of the Freshmen. Danielian states that lack of experience will not be a handicap, since the first two weeks will be spent in elementary instruction in the fundamentals of the game. Under a new ruling made during the last year, members of the University team will receive the minor sport H, while Freshman players will be awarded numerals...
...language is keyed low, but it has a subtle tension which gradually accumulates its tragic effect. There are few memorable, marmoreal phrases, none that would sound out of place in a sober and serious colloquy. Occasionally this quiet phrasing has a bite in it which louder words somehow lack. Nightingale is telling Malory how he ruined him by not giving him warning to sell stock he knew was going to crash...