Word: lacks
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...published in a little volume entitled "Asolando" in memory of the charm of his Italian days. While Mr. Browning's death has of course stimulated the public interest in his work, the little group of poems before us will of a certainty live by their own merit. They lack as a whole, perhaps, the mystical character which he imparted to his earlier works, and yet like these they mingle the worlds of fact and fancy. Love, humor, pathos, all find place here and the classic and the modern are mingled. The little volume is a beautiful piece of bookmaking...
...lack of a Semitic museum in Harvard-a lack that some of us have long felt-now seems likely to be supplied. A beginning has been made by the generous gift of ten thousand dollars by Mr. Jacob Schiff of New York; we may hope that this gift will be followed by others till a sufficient sum shall have been raised to tablish a museum on a satisfactory basis...
...Letter" is a reply to J. R. Finlay's communication in the December Monthly. It attempts to show by a comparison of our recent athletic teams with Yale's that Yale has not had better men and suggests that Harvard's greatest deficiency is "a lack of trainers...
...worth burning. The old discount on coal, and on the laundry also, is gone. The work done by the latter is disgraceful. For each one of these back slidings there is probably an excuse but there can be none for all of them taken together, coupled with the lack of improvement anywhere. Your correspondent of yesterday objected to one man management." Has the Society even that? The superintendent is in his office two hours during the whole week...
...southern negro is not at present a fit subject for political privileges 1. He is unfit by reason of (at racial descent (b) lack of education (c) low medals. 2. If in power he would overthrow good laws and good order Forum...