Word: lacks
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1890-1899
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...College of south Carolinas is soon to be closed for lack of students...
...dollars. This must be given by the class, for the Athletic Committee will not allow it to be borrowed. Unless, then, Ninety-six will come forward within the next few days to the support of her nine, she must bear the chagrin of seeing the Princeton game cancelled for lack of funds to pay for the travelling expenses. This is no idle threat. Other classes have been placed in similar predicaments, but they have managed to extricate themselves by subscribing liberally. We wish to state the facts plainly and accurately to the members of Ninety-six. It is for them...
...editorials are not elegant in style, good in sentiment and matter or forcible in diction. Moreover, humor is born not made in a writer and the efforts here to be humorous injure the high tone that the Advocate editorials have hitherto had. In several instances there is evidence of lack of grasp of the subject, a flippancy of tone that is unbecoming and a general character foreign to good advocate editorials. It were best for the writers to recognize that the fault they find with the plays of the Theatre of Arts and Letters - that the authors "thought to write...
...worth thinking of, it can be but a poor thing. Again, many think Christianity dull; but this is not true in fact or in theory. Not only is it most interesting in itself, but theoretically its chief end is to cure dullness. It is the lack of Christianity which makes a life dull...
...last few numbers have been. The editorials are better reading than anything else in the number for they all are good and are with one or two exceptions on pertinent and interesting topics. The stories of the number are on the whole below the average, most of them lack a point and are very weak at the finish. "A Study in Friendship" is undoubtedly the best of them, but even this is not to be compared with the stories of the last number. Two of the "College Kodaks", the second and the third are very good; the first, fourth...