Word: lacks
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...recent provision of fourteen class-room libraries outside of Gore Hall, the instruction in the advanced courses of some departments is seriously crippled. There is considerable annual waste of labor, and therefore of money, caused by the scattering of books belonging to the same department, and the lack of proper spaces in which to arrange the accessions in the classes to which they belong. The pressing needs are more stacks for books, enlarged quarters for the public catalogue, a spacious delivery room, and a well-ventilated and well-lighted reading-room capable of accommodating 400 readers...
...Professor Jacobi, instructor in fencing at Yale, has resigned and will leave the university at once. The Department of Fencing was instituted just a year ago and he was invited to take charge by Professor Anderson, director of the new gymnasium. Fencing has not proved popular at Yale and lack of interest is the cause of the abandonment of classes in that branch of athletics. Professor Jacobi will probably return to France where the science he teaches is more popular...
...nine and strenuous exertions on the part of coach and captain. In view of this the class as a whole should feel that their reputation is at stake and make every effort to turn out a winning team. If the number of candidates should be small owing to lack of interest, every man in the class ought to feel himself indirectly to blame. All the more after having a victory over the Yale freshmen in football does the college expect a good baseball team; and the first step in this direction is to give the coach plenty of material...
...Jesus show his pity for the poor, their hunger, their ignorance, and their lack of leaders? He had no patent remedy, no ingenious social reform schemes. He said: "Pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that He will send forth laborers into the harvest." That is the only way to save the poor. There must be laborers and the labor is for college men. Will Harvard stand forth to its own glory for truth and justice and pity for the poor, or will it to its everlasting shame shrink back and let the poor take care of themselves...
...York. He is occupied in writing a history of German literature, which he has been intending to do for some time. He wished to go abroad during the winter and visit his old home in Germany, but has been obliged to give up the trip, owing to lack of time...