Word: lacks
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...will not be from lack of able championing that the present four years' course of study at Harvard is changed. Professor Macvane contributes the leading article to the March Monthly and in it makes an able stand against the arguments of Professor James and others who advocate the three years' course. The various arguments offered by the friends of the three years' course,-such as a popular demand for such a change, the supposed analogies of foreign educational systems, the relations of our colleges to our professional schools, the failure of the attendance at colleges to keep pace with...
...Canada is unfitted to become an independent nation because of [a] its geographical situation and physical configuration, [b] the lack of political unity; North American Review vol. 131 p. 14; Boston Herald, March 8-12, 1891; Review of Reviews...
...think and vote on sound principles. He gave statistics to show the great falling off of the vote in Massachusetts in the years immediately following presidential elections, and concluded that the abolition of the poll tax as a requisite for voting would greatly increase this lack of interest. The poll tax should be retained until the people of Massachusetts have attained a higher degree of economic knowledge...
...getting to work till after Christmas. Since then, however, the men have been at work very steadily, and their progress has been, on the whole, better than that of the Glee Club, though their work is still far from satisfactory. Individually they play well, but as a whole they lack that dash and precision which come only from long practice. This lack of unity, however, is due more to the tardy organization of the club than to any other cause, and the fault will soon be corrected if the men keep up their present standard of conscientious work...
...Hagerman, Brewster, Paine, Ferris, Mills, Crosby, Balliet. Hagerman, rowing 7, was on the Cornell crew last year, and, according to the Yale News, gives promise to be a fair one, although he has a number of faults at present. "The general faults of these men," says the News, "are lack of earnestness, complete absence of swing, poor time, and wretched watermanship...