Word: lacks
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...number of the candidates for the freshman baseball nine has been slightly reduced, but before the regular outdoor practice begins it will be necessary to diminish the squad still more. The candidates as a whole have showed marked improvement in starting and sliding but lack snap and accuracy in the fielding practice, and the throwing is not up to the standard. It is hoped that the team may begin outdoor practice in the course of the next three weeks...
...three years requirement is injurious.- (a) To good scholarship.- (1) Invites sacrifice of thoroughness to mere passing of courses: Min. Rep., p. 18.- (b) To smaller colleges: Pres't Capen in report of Tufts College, 1889-90.- (1) They educate more than half of those receiving collegiate education.- (2) Lack of endowment would not enable them to meet the new competition.- (3) Instead of being feeders to the University they would be extinguished.- (c) To Harvard.- (1) It sacrifices the net gain since 1860-the senior year: Min. Rep., p. 15.- (d) To cause of education in general...
...hour in which students not rooming close to the two halls and having to use both are forced to wander aimlessly about. The Fogg Museum doors are closed at the same hour (5 o'clock), and recourse to the Gymnasium is not to be had that day. The lack of coincidence of hours is probably accidental and might be easily remedied to the advantage of a large number of members of the University. For though the same ones may not be troubled by the present arrangement every week, in the course of a year there would be a considerable total...
...present so widespread that bicycle racing certainly need not depend upon other kinds of athletic events for its success. Outside of the universities large and successful cycling meets are constantly being held, and although bicycle races are the only events upon the programme, there is never any lack of interest or enthusiasm manifest...
...latest opinion as to Yale's weak points brings out another difficulty in the Library equipment, its deplorable lack of funds for anual purchases. In a recent letter Dr. W. L. Phelps adds force to Professor Cook's statement that the Library receives too little attention and in some respects, too little use, and adds the charge of poverty of Library funds. Professor Farnam has added his testimony to this and the real condition of things has thus first been brought to the notice of many. Yale has but $7000 annually available for book purchases, against $43,000 at Columbia...