Word: lacks
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...candidates for the Mott Haven team who can get in condition for them should enter. These meetings afford a pleasant variety of training and the experience gained from them is of the greatest value to our athletes. Nothing trains the judgment in athletics like actual competition, and lack of nice and exact judgment is fatal in a close race or any other form of field sports...
...Parker talked very interestingly to the St. Paul's Society last evening about Oxford, showing how there was little opportunity for such a society there because of the universality of Episcopalianism and the lack of unity among the different colleges...
...wish to call attention to the lack of instruction on the floor of the gymnasium and the need of a regular man there...
...chapel yesterday evening there was a noticeable lack of ventilation. The air was so oppresive that several left the church early in the service, and finally one lady was assisted out in a fainting condition. The lack of ventilation may have been occasioned by the fact that the chapel being unusually crowded the people that were obliged to stand could not bear a draught. Nevertheless a little more attention to the subject of ventilation would add greatly to the comfort of all who attend the Sunday evening services...
...Plutarch, that it is "written in fire." Nevertheless, both "Dawn" and the "Villanelle" are more than mediocre. One or two lines of the former are good, although in consideration of the innumerable word-harmonies of which "Dawn" has been the theme, it is not strange if one notes the lack of a single original strain in the song. The "Villanelle" is correct in form and in a certain brightness of fancy reminds one of Herrick. As a villanelle it is praise-worthy...