Word: lacks
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...fully ten minutes later before a ladder was raised. In the meanwhile the man had been forced to jump and not firemen but students broke his fall with the life net. In the course of time more apparatus arrived and more men, but even then the lack of training and still more evident lack of capable direction were apparent. There was plenty of shouting by all hands and very little "teamwork...
...this state of affairs lies not with the men themselves, but with the system. Cambridge can never have an efficient fire service until the antiquated "volunteer" or "call system" is done away with. The men can not get to a fire quickly. When they do get there, they necessarily lack training and discipline. Captain McNamee of the Brattle St. station says that in the majority of the fires he attends he has to rely on the assistance of outsiders...
...editorial in the current number of the Advocate which receives notice in another column is, as there stated, an attempt at an explanation of the failure of undergraduate literary work to attain a higher standard, by suggesting that it is due to lack of experiences which furnish live topics to write about. The writer says truly that experience is necessary, "for nothing is heeded which has not the ring of actual knowledge." He goes on to say that the college man exhausts his stock of college experiences in his Freshman and Sophomore years and then "grows stale...
...whole better than the average, and in spite of two very old jokes and an uninteresting article on "Dangers of Arctic Industries," is very good reading. The best thing in the issue is a take-off on "The Voice" showing the effects of prohibition at Harvard and the lack of it at Yale. The illustrations are all very fair and the poems are cleverer than usual. The editorial on the new board of the Lampoon contains bright hits on the other college papers. But it is to be hoped that the introduction of suggestive matter does not mark a change...
...Owing to lack of space the list of men who presented themselves as candidates for the Weld Freshman crew Monday evening was not printed in yesterday's CRIMSON. The men began work on the machines yesterday afternoon. Their names follow...