Word: lacks
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Harvard-Columbia race, but were swamped before the first mile had been rowed, and since then the impression has prevailed that the course is too narrow for a three-cornered race. There is, however, no real ground for this impression, for the cause of Yale's disaster was not lack of room for the crews, but rough water, as Columbia's shell came very near sharing Yale's fate, being half full of water at the finish...
Under all these favorable circumstances Harvard should win the championship this spring, especially since she will have the advantages of playing all her most important games on the home grounds. The only serious drawback which the captain and management have to struggle against is a lack of new candidates just at this time. To be sure, the men have only just begun out-door work,-but more new men should present themselves. Unless they turn out in larger numbers immediately, the cricket team will be unable, even under the most advantageous circumstances...
What we have said in regard to the andidates for the freshman nine apies equally well to the men who hink they are trying hard for the new. The trouble with all Ninety-four's thletic teams at present is lack of earnestness. They do not seem to have acquired the first principles of the lessons which Harvard has been learning of late years. The freshmen know well enough what these lessons have been, and what the college now expects of its representatives. It is that spirit of earnest activity which is absolutely essential to success...
...that the attitude toward Christ of the father of the child which had the dumb spirit is exactly our own. It is to Christ that the world turns for the solution of its troubles, and yet that solution has not come. It is because there is the same lack of complete faith which there was in the father when Christ addressed to him the words of the text. Faith is openness of heart and character. The man who has not this is solitary, he is not an integral part of the world...
Notwithstanding the many changes, the crew got together well toward the last and sent the barge spinning along in good style. The crew is steadily improving, getting better control of slides, and keeping better time. The chief faults as a crew now are lack of snap at catch, and not powerful enough turn on of shoulders...