Word: lacks
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Many short-sighted college students console themselves for the lack of industry on their determination to labor conscientiously, once they enter the professional school. There is no greater fallacy than the one that leads us to think that it is safer to loaf in college than to loaf in a professional school. The young lawyer who has neglected the law may make up his deficiencies in the early years of his practice--"he will have plenty of time then." But there is no recovery of the years thrown away at college...
...will be played this afternoon, and the remaining games will follow in sequence. Notices of the games will be printed in the CRIMSON on the day of the game, or posted in Leavitt and Peirce's. Managers are requested to watch the bulletin board there, as lack of ice may cause the postponement of a game...
...relation between high marks in college and success in later life remains an interesting, and for lack of trustworthy evidence, a puzzling problem. It is complicated by the fact that such success is so various that it is impossible to lay down a universal standard by which men's relative attainments can be measured. Wealth, eminence in public affairs, social usefulness and historical fame are all legitimate objects of human endeavor, and none can be set above the rest or even expressed in terms of any other...
...obtain an endowment fund worthy of the name, the appeal must be country-wide and include practically every living Harvard man. A special effort will those graduates of smaller means, and those at a distance from the Atlantic seaboard, who is the past have not been reached because of lack of system in soliciting gifts...
...more to treat the subject broadly, with due regard to national needs. It makes little difference what precise place he occupies in the long range of opinion from the highest of high protection to the freest of free trade. Many men who call themselves practical have gone astray by lack of economic study. This deficiency a scholar like Professor Taussig will be able to supply. --Philadelphia Public Ledger...