Word: lacks
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Plans for a University infirmary have been under consideration for some time but a lack of available funds has made it impossible as yet to accomplish much that is definite in that direction. However, as the need is so great, it is intended to formulate some sort of a scheme for meeting the present wants, which can be set definitely before the University in the near future...
...College. The writer suggested that steps be taken to arrange for a series of lectures treating of the part Harvard has played in colonial and later history. This letter unfortunately was received with no comment and the subject was dropped. The loss suffered by most of us in our lack of knowledge of the historic interest connected with even the various college buildings is much to be lamented. How many of us know which elm in the Yard is the "Rebellion Tree," or why it was so called? How many of us are aware that Lafayette was received by President...
After pointing out the lack of any natural boundaries separating New England from its neighbors, he said that only about twenty of the sixteen hundred flowering plants of the district could be called characteristic. All of the rest pass freely back and forth over barriers which exist only on the map. The vegetation of a country is the expression of ancestral peculiarities modified by the surroundings. The remote ancestry of our flora was proved by the late Professor Gray to be the same as that of Eastern Asia, and hence many species occur in the Atlantic States which are substantially...
...appeals of the committee who have charge of the dinner, has been far too half-hearted. The class should not be contented with only a fair attendance at the big social event of its junior year. Fortunately it is not yet too late to make up for the lack of enthusiasm which has so far been shown. In former years the blue-book list has swelled rapidly on the last day and we hope that a repetition of this occurrence will today gratify the committee and all other well wishers of Ninety...
...rapid improvement, under the leadership of J. M. Little, Jr., '97. Notwithstanding the fact that the majority of the men are novices, the club already plays with a precision and snap which is unusual at this time of year. Of the three parts, the banjeaurines are the poorest; they lack the expression and softness of touch required. This will no doubt be remedied before the first concert, which takes place at the University Club in Boston on April...