Word: lacks
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...expenses which must be met by immediate contributions. In the present unsettled state of negotiations with Yale, no reliance can be placed upon gate-money from a Yale game, and this is practically the only possible source of income besides subscriptions. The nine must not be handicapped by lack of funds either now or later in the season. Together with the crews it has the first claim upon the freshmen for subscriptions. With the increasing interest in athletics which now seems to be spreading through the college, there should be not only more candidates for the teams but more active...
...Huyck's stroke is very uneven at finish and he clips slightly. Gould falls over on catch and pulls too short a stroke. Rogers has been sick for some time and cannot be fairly criticised. The most noticeable faults in the crew, as a whole, are a lack of life, a tendency to push their slides, a slowness with their hands, and pulling a short choppy stroke...
...second game of the season was played with the Exeter Academy nine on Jarvis field on Saturday afternoon. It was the Exeter team's first game and the men showed a lamentable lack of practice. The strange grounds evidently bothered them, also; for they seemed badly rattled all through the game. Pitcher White could not rely on his catcher, and had to let up in his delivery; and the Harvard men found no difficulty in hitting him safely, although not very heavily. The Exeter nine seemed to do fair work in practise before the game, and evidently has some good...
...send the crew to the training table a week or two earlier than they otherwise would be enabled to go. If every freshman subscribes the most he can afford, there will be no cause for Harvard men to grumble that Ninety three's crew was defeated by Yale for lack of class enthusiasm and want of fond for proper training...
...Yale News says that the defeats of Yale freshman teams by Harvard freshman in recent years are due to the lack of suitable means for regular training. and urges that upperclassmen take a likelier in the success of freshman teams...