Word: lacks
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...first meeting of the Directors of the new Columbia College Athletic Union has just been held. The board recommended that no 'varsity crew should be placed on the water this year on account of the lack of money, and the entire want of interest that Columbia shows in athletics. It was provided however that a mass-meeting of the students should be held to ascertain the opinion of the college at large. Five men of last year's crew are still in college but the three best of these, McKee, Prince, and Pomeroy will be unable to row. There will...
Several interesting principles have been brought out by this controversy. A curious lack of harmony in the executive departments is visible; Secretary Blaine and and Secretary Tracy have not pulled together and the president has not undertaken to make them agree. The State department is the organ of foreign policy and the navy and war departments should be subordinate...
...gymnasium which has been in process of erection at Yale for some time is now practically completed as to its exterior, and work is now being pushed on the interior. Although the building was to have been finished last June lack of funds has prevented its completion and it is now uncertain when it will be ready for use. The main gymnasium hall contains over 10,000 square feet of floor space and is lighted directly by means of the glass roof, which has been made especially strong to support the weight of the apparatus. A running track surrounds...
...seek. In the first place Princeton's boating facilities are exceptionally poor. There is no water within reach on which a crew can practice except the Delaware and Rantan canal. Practice on "dead" water, such as that in a canal is sure to make a crew lack all snap and life, and this has been the trouble with almost all Princeton's crews in the past. No one could ask for a better place than a canal on which to develop a crew's form, but no one could find worse water on which to train a crew...
...field is constantly broadening and opening up new possibilities to the workers. It still asks the same sort of aid from the college that it did in the beginning, but the appeal has a very real force now. Harvard men cannot allow this work to be crippled by lack of money and of workers...