Word: lacks
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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YALE has had its Thanksgiving Jubilee, and the Courant and Record gladly fill their columns with the nonsense characteristic of the occasion. If an address on the "Ramifications of the Forensic Hyperbla," relying for its wit on poor spelling and lack of punctuation, be a sample of the performances, we cannot wonder that impromptu diversions in the way of bean and flour contests were acceptable to the audience. For a real "jolly wow" give us a Yale merrymaking...
...after week to attend examinations, our pleasant vision did not vanish. We never realized that the atmosphere of the Dean's office was less favorable to us than to others, although our petitions were often not granted. If answers to our questions were somewhat brief, or there was any lack of fervor in our welcome, it was attributed to the attention necessarily due to matters of importance decided there, thus leaving no time for the little civilities always expected from public officials. Arguments would have been useless to prove that we received less attention, enjoyed fewer privileges, or were regarded...
...lest for words I then should lack...
...sight of that friend moodily retiring from the spot where Bowie had passed him, evidently disheartened and disgusted. He may have trained on wrong principles; his style of running was certainly not good, - being too showy, and not at all easy or smooth; worse than all, he betrayed a lack of pluck, - a prime condition of success...
...thief which suggested that our statements might not be founded on fact? Did it feel the injustice of charging the Harvard Freshmen with showing the "white feather" merely on the authority of a libel in the Yale Courant, that it must suspect the editors of the Magenta of equal lack of conscience? In order that no one may have a legitimate doubt in regard to this article, we state that before it was sent to the press, it was read to the President of the H. U. B. C. and to the Captain of the Freshman Crew, and approved...