Word: lacks
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...hoped that enough funds may be collected here to be presented to Marshal Joffre on his arrival that many thousands of these unwilling and unsharing victims of the war may be relieved from the bare threat of lack of nourishment. Harvard is asked to do its share. Our share can be nothing less than the furthest dollar which we may spare from other and less vital needs. We may never give back to those children the happiness that they have lost, nor abate their desolation in one degree. Yet we may from our abundance spare enough to keep them from...
...nourishment to feed their peoples. In three years of war the most powerful races of the earth have been reduced from a state of astounding opulence to a condition where their very lives may depend upon their ability to obtain food. In such a condition of universal and terrible lack, which is the forerunner of starvation, the United States, whose resources our rhetoricians are fond of calling unlimited, is called upon to give nourishment that the whole world world may live...
...situation of the Law School is precarious. This is not from any weakness in the school or its faculty. The difficulty is due to lack of money. It was Dean Thayer's intention had he lived to appeal to the graduates to provide for this need. The school was financially prosperous for many years and accumulated a surplus of about $400,000, which was used about 1906 to build Langdell Hall, as the Corporation could not give any assistance. The school has lost the interest on this large sum of money and increased its outgo by the additional charges...
Intercollegiate athletics have been abandoned generally, in this part of the country at least, because of the requirements of military training, and as yet there has been little or no attempt to organize a substitute. Undoubtedly the action of the Athletic Association is justified, chiefly on account of lack of time. But there is another argument in favor of it. A great deal of importance is attached to intercollegiate contests; so much that the players devote all their attention and interest to them. At times they become almost professional, with an object of such paramount importance as military preparation...
...have read with interest and sympathy your two editorials of May 1. But at the same time it must be remembered that one defect of the many virtues of democratic government is a lack of co-ordination which diminishes efficiency, retards and confuses action, and calls, at the beginning, at least, of any crisis, for the aid of private and voluntary association and effort...