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Word: lacks (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1890-1899
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...while Morse at shortstop was very weak. Litchfield at third played his usual good game, with the exception of one excusable error, and his batting has improved immensely. As a whole the nine did not play nearly the game they are capable of, and several times showed a deplorable lack of judgment...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Freshmen, 10; Somerville High, 5 | 4/30/1896 | See Source »

...game was stopped in the eighth inning for lack of time, but the College Nine in those last few moments netted the only runs they had to their credit...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Brockton, 13; College Nine, 3. | 4/28/1896 | See Source »

Very probably the reason for the lack of support that the club is receiving is due to the fact that men do not appreciate fully the advantages that it offers them, and this would more especially apply to the freshman class. Whatever may be the trouble it is deplorable that this organization which was founded at so great an expense and which in itself is such an excellent thing should be in danger of failing for want of student support...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 4/14/1896 | See Source »

...rare opportunity to see this very entertaining comedy. The play was last given in this vicinity about twelve years ago, when the Cambridge Dramatic Club produced it with great success. While the absence of any strong feminine parts keeps the Good-Natured Man from the professional stage, this very lack, with the strong characterization in the masculine parts, peculiarly fits it for the production by college students. The play is considered by some critics superior to She Stoops to Conquer; certainly the bailiff and the incendiary letter scenes are far more amusing than anything in the latter comedy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Good-Natured Man. | 4/4/1896 | See Source »

...sufficiently united to make the event a success. With its special organizations, in addition to its athletic teams, is not the freshman class, toward the close of the year, really more united than the sophomore class? In any case, would not a freshman dinner promote that very thing, the lack of which is urged as an objection-a closer union of the class? In the opinion of many the class dinner is one of the few means available at Harvard to make the class more of a unit; it is more profitable to that end than as a recognition that...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Communication. | 4/2/1896 | See Source »

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