Word: lacks
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...lack of suitable rowing machines very seriously impedes the progress of the indoor training of the class crews. This is a matter which the public spirit of each class should not allow to remain as it is at present. We understand that of the $240 necessary to provide good machines like those used by the University crew, the management of the latter will contribute $100 if the class crew managers will raise the rest. The small amount required should easily be raised at once by the three upper classes...
...student's self-reliance and self-respect: Educational Review, VII, 26, 325; Graduates' Magazine, II, 468; Harvard Monthly, XV, 93; Four American Universities, 17 fg.- (1) It throws him upon his own resources.- (2) He is treated as a man and not as a schoolboy.- (d) The accompanying lack of enthusiasm is but a cover for a maturity and balance: Educational Review, VII, 325.- (1) The apparent coldness comes from a mental perspective and a sense of what is ideally best.- (e) It teaches him to look upon himself not as a part of a body isolated from the world...
...colleges, though gratifying to our pride as students of Harvard may possibly have an injurious effect on the standards of ability which we set before us. Debating as it is known today has hardly passed its infancy. Our graduates of the older generation tell us of the almost total lack, in their time, of facilities for acquiring skill in public argument. An appreciation of the defects of our present attainments is the only thing which can give us any prospect of continued success. The experience of the past few years indicates plainly the lines along which improvement must come...
...evils of the congressional system are great.- (a) Enormous number of bills presented.- (b) Committee system.- (c) Lack of responsibility for legislation: Woodraw Wilson, Congressional Government...
...have never made such a charge, I leave it to the 'other man' to find specific case. What I have said is that the impression has prevailed that our athletic teams have not been representative, and I have cited the existence of this impression as an indication of the lack of unanimity in times past. It makes no difference whether there were actual grounds for this idea, or not; the chief fact is that it has existed. Personally, I do not believe that even in the worst days of Harvard athletics, before Mr. Pierce came to college, captains consciously allowed...