Word: lacks
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...place isn't form all-important anyway? For snatches of life, for casual comments, for detached thoughts that would not be improved by reaching symmetrical harmony, vers libre may be quite in keeping. But that is only saying that for certain types of verse the best form is a lack of form. There is always the dangerous temptation to express in free verse thoughts that might be more perfectly expressed otherwise. And it is that danger that has led some unkind people to characterize free verse as a vehicle for half-baked thoughts...
...Student body is interested also by the question of dormitory facilities. The Alumni Weekly again calls attention editorially to the lack of dormitory accommodation both the college and in the Scientific School. By assigning to the freshmen the Vanderbit dormitories, a step has been taken this year which is highly commended. But because of inadequate housing facilities, 43 college seniors, five juniors, 37 sophomores and 12 freshmen are not living in dormitories with their classmates...
...Five Freshmen crossed the line ahead of the first Andover man, B. Lewis, captain, setting a new record of 20 minutes, 41 3-5 seconds. The Freshman team was well-balanced and as a whole covered the course in excellent form, while the Andover team showed lack of training as evidenced by the fact that they placed only three men out of the first...
Exter shows the lack of Tad Jones' coaching this fall in a team which does not measure up to those formerly coached by the present Yale coach. Although the Princeton freshmen were defeated 39 to 0 in a ragged game last Saturday, the defeat by the Yale 1920 eleven shows that Exeter is not as powerful as last year. The Academy eleven defeated 1919 by the score of 22 to 10 a year ago, and the present Freshmen now have the opportunity to turn the tables on Exeter by winning this afternoon...
...become a fashion amounting to almost an obsession for a great many Americans, especially those who are young, educated and have sojourned abroad, to deplore the lack of ideals, the "crass materialism," of their native land. The younger they are, the more educated they are, the longer they have sojourned abroad, in so much greater measure is their contempt voiced, till it has become almost the mark of culture and broad-mindedness to hold in contempt the nation's money, lust, and laud to the point of idolization the noble principles and the high ideals of Europe. It is always...