Word: lacks
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...thousand reasons which prevent individuals or institutions from doing exactly what they wish in this world, lack of money stands forth as preeminent. The institution of Harvard University is no exception. It wants many things, which would be foolish acquirements when the yearly reckoning of finances shows a deficit...
...CRIMSON baseball team will meet the C. C. A. on Soldiers Field tomorrow afternoon at 1.30 o'clock. The C. C. A. has an unusually strong nine this year, in spite of its lack of veterans, and should give the editors a hard fight. Although the CRIMSON team's talent is universally acknowledged, it must be admitted that in the C. C. A. it will encounter an opponent of great latent ability, and the question of superiority will be a difficult one to decide...
...have long since learned that no case lies against the undergraduate because he does not attend Union lectures. True he sometimes allows the prestige of the name of the lecture or the lack of it, to influence him more than it should in proportion to the subject matter. And as it is very difficult to secure "famous" men for every lecture and as this qualification is after all, relatively one of degree, the subject matter of the lecture is the only consistent basis of appeal for attendance...
...close is distinctly weak. W. D. Crane in "Bully" and L. Wood, Jr., in "Short, Sweet and Bitter" do not succeed so well in following the difficult master. Both attempt what few people can accomplish skilfully in clearing up their mysteries by means of a letter, and both lack vigor and compactness. Whatever the merits and demerits of the stories, however, the Advocate has been unwise in selecting three so similar. Had O. Henry himself written them we would be justified in asking a little variety. The two bits of verse, best characterized as pleasant, are neither important enough...
...pointed and keen; indeed, such ones as, "The German is perpetually hungry," and, "Akademische Freiheit is the Veritas of the German University," are almost epigrammatic. There is also novelty in Mr. Lockwood's chronicle of his semi-scientific hunting trip in Alaska, though his account suffers somewhat from lack of detailed description and incident. The series of articles on customs in different colleges is represented by one this month on Massachusetts Agricultural College and we are inclined to agree with the author when he suggests that the most distinctive thing about such "distinctive" customs is that they are, after...