Word: lacking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Everybody will agree today that it would be difficult to imagine a banking system more cruel and more in efficient than that prevailing in the U. S. at the beginning of the twentieth Century. . . ." The cruelties were imposed by the eccentricities and individualism of the private bankers, by the lack of a central controlling or guardian agent. But "the idea of a central banking system [was] anathema to all. The compromise between the anathema and the need was the Federal Reserve Board of which Senator Carter Glass, opponent of a central bank, once resignedly remarked, "'Oh, hell...
After their win over the weak St. Mark's aggregation at the opening of the season, the 1933 nine dropped four contests in a row, all the games showing up the lack of baseball skill that is contained in the present Freshman class. Last Saturday the Freshmen were scheduled to meet the Samuel Johnson Academy forces, a team that had been beaten only a few times and a well running machine that was doped utterly to blank the Freshman team. Playing the best brand of baseball that they have exhibited to date the first year nine came off with...
...Once it did draw serious young men in search of a thorough, modern education Now it has little to offer. Its teachers, sadly underpaid, are at best average. Its library, once unequalled, still boasting great collections (Dante, Petrarch, Icelandic) is slowly decaying in Willard Fiske's old building. Lack of funds prevents the erection of a new one; prevents the purchase of enough new books; limits the staff to a few hardworked, underpaid librarians. No gymnasium has Cornell; nor has it a swimming pool. It has few dormitories. More than half its students live in boarding houses. Architects...
...financial power to lavish expenditure upon the College Widow and its like. That such methods may suttice admission is unfair to candidates without Wall Street backing. It is also unfair to Harvard, in whose Freshman Class the present system places a group of men whose work, or rather lack of it, lowers standards, bother deans, and in general forms an unhappy fringe insecurely perched upon the local scene by the perpetual support of hired outside...
There seems to the average mind, however, one strange lack. There should come cavalry, light horse and heavy: dragoons, horseguards, yes, even horse marines. There might be also jockeys on their mounts, polo teams, small circuses. For there should rally from schoolhouse and academy, from seminary, college and university, the myriads of "ponies" that down through the ages the schoolboy has ridden roughshod among the singing lines of Vergil. The Columbia State quoted in the Boston Transcript...