Word: lacks
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...more than one thousand people. At present the New Lecture Hall is the only place in which, athletic mass meetings, and other undergraduate demonstrations may be held, and that buildings is already being outgrown. Another need of a large auditorium appears now, as it does annually, in the lack of a suitable place in which to hold the Commencement exercises, where more of the guests may witness them. Again, if an adequate auditorium were provided it would afford a better place for holding recitals of the University Musical Clubs...
Five defeats out of seven encounters, a certain lack of the essential drive, and a slackness among individual members in matters of team play and training is the record which the baseball squad has presented to the University during the past three weeks. It has been a number of years since Harvard has had to face such a major sport problem. We have hesitated for a long time before admitting that fact; there seems now but little doubt that it is, unfortunately, true...
...great problem in University life for some time past has been the lack of common interests between the foreign student and the majority of the undergraduates. In the Student Council's decision to admit one or more representatives of the Cosmopolitan Club to its membership, much progress has been made in the solution of this difficulty...
...much to banking interests in the Corporation as to the absence of great scholars in the Faculty. It is the reputation of great teaching which attracts men to the college and which impels students to seek scholastic attainment. The greatest difficulty Harvard now faces is the lack of funds; professors have been asked to accept positions here, in some cases, for $2,000 less than they were getting. Such a situation cannot but keep able men from coming here...
...Chapman's indictment, although well meant, and aimed to correct a deplorable lack of intellectuality, hit upon the wrong cause, and attacked a Corporation which is now trying to remedy our greatest shortcoming...