Word: lacking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...would seem that the positions left vacant last year by the graduation of George Ford, Louis Carr, Leo Ecker, and Specs Mahoney would be hard to fill. Each of them was a superb hockey player. But lack of hockey material has not been a problem at Harvard for a good many years. Thus Joe Stubbs has many left-overs of last year and a few new men who ought to be capable of making the loss from graduation practically negligible...
...should be thrown open for the use of these fellowship holders. And even all these facilities would be greatly bolstered if some sort of arrangement with actual newspapers and journalists were effected. This contact ought to provide an antidote for the chief flaw cited against university-taught journalism, namely, lack of actual experience in newswork or "pressure-writing...
...chief schools at present, at Columbia and Missouri, doubtless produce capable men, but there is some question as to whether such men are sought after for newspaper jobs. Editors, it seems, still like to train their own men to fit their peculiar standards. For these two reasons, lack of proper finances and the questionable success of similar ventures, a Graduate School of Journalism does not seem to be the answer to Harvard's problem...
...Shean (né Schoenberg), as Father Malachy, atones for lack of force by endearing benignity. He was just as endearing nearly 18 years ago when, with the late Ed Gallagher, he stepped out on a Bronx vaudeville stage to introduce a refrain that still echoes its "Positively, Mr. Gallagher. Absolutely, Mr. Shean." Gallagher & Shean kept the nation chuckling over their fresh lyrical topicalities for five years, until fame and boomtime stage salaries went to Gallagher's head. He dissipated fortune and health, died almost penniless. Shean preserved his equilibrium and his money, played on Broadway in Light Wines...
...Slogum House, Mari Sandoz sets herself the gigantic task of making this unnatural mother humanly understandable, is kept from doing so by Gulla Slogum's many crimes, her lack of all familiar human characteristics except greed. An oldfashioned, 400-page chronicle, slow-moving despite its many melodramatic episodes, Slogum House is set against the same brutal Nebraska-pioneer background pictured in Mari Sandoz' Old Jules, which won the Atlantic Monthly $5,000 Non-Fiction Prize in 1935. That unsparing biography of the author's father showed how he had been hardened by years of struggle against neighbors...