Word: lacks
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...inference that the extent of the sale depends to a large degree on the success of the nine. If true, this shows a deplorable state of affairs. Harvard men should be the last to forget that the obligation to support a team is only increased by a temporary lack of success. That the nine has unfortunately met with several defeats at the beginning of the season, and has not played fully up to the hopes of the College, is far from excusing the neglect with which it has so far met. Students show themselves much too willing to credit rumors...
...great importance of the work done by the Dean, the Secretary and the Recorder, while ignoring the difficulties which attend the performance of that work. In the case of the Recorder, for instance, it seems very unfair that the necessary annoyances of his position should be aggravated by any lack of facilities for the execution of his duties. His office, which the Dean well terms a kind of gangway, offers wretched accommodations for himself and the subordinate clerks who aid him in the extensive and elaborate book-keeping, which is an essential part of his work. The case is similar...
...ninth the Groton men took a big brace and won. The features of the game were the pitching of Cozzens and Haughton, the former having 15 strikeouts to his credit. Haughton's batting was excellent. He is easily the mainstay of Groton's team. The Harvard freshmen showed their lack of coaching...
...candidates for all the class ball teams will be called out to begin practice this week, we wish to urge that as many men as possible present themselves. The class teams always suffer from lack of material, and the captains often have not men enough to form two nines. The contest for the class championship is of very great importance, both in keeping up the general interest in the game and in furnishing varsity material, and all men who have had any experience should be willing to do what they can to ensure its success...
...George Birkbeck Hill's interesting and valuable comments on Harvard life, he greatly regrets the lack here of any Hall or Common Rooms to help bridge the distance between teachers and pupils, and to be in some sort the center of the social life of the University. With such Common Rooms, and the hospitable gatherings in them, he had been familiar at Oxford, and so doubtless felt their want keenly; but though he desired them keenly; but though he desired them earnestly for Harvard, he cannot have desired them half so earnestly as she does herself. Fortunately...