Word: wanting
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...entries for tomorrow's meeting are given below and it will be seen that the heavy weight sparring, middle weight wrestling, and feather weight wrestling events are omitted from want of entries...
...There is a want of confidence and co-operation between Congress and the Cabinet disastrous to good governments: Wilson, p. 278. - (a) Congress makes incessant exactions interfering with department business. - (b) The administration does not work as a whole; Bryce, p. 87. - (c) It is not possible to locate responsibility; Atlantic...
Tenors - J. C. Bartlett, George Hawley, Edward E. Holden, Thomas Johnson, W. T. Meek, T. H. Norris, George J. Parker, Elijah Spears, L. B. Walker, George W. Want, Edwin F. Webber...
...powers of the average Harvard man are far from wonderful or even creditable. The men who spoke last evening had fairly good ideas, but most of them were unable to air them intelligently and forcibly. Lack of practice has doubtless much to do with this condition of things. The want of self-confidence exhibited by many of the speakers was largely due to this lack of practice. There is no reason why, with the opportunities at hand, speaking should not be more widely cultivated and why there should not be at Harvard a debating club in which the college would...
...fact that it touches more elementary subjects and is thus of closer interest to college men. All of the courses, however, will be of great benefit to the University. The new department of pedagogy, which is an experiment this year, is succeeding admirably and is supplying a much needed want. What the University gives to its students loses much of its value in the world if the students in turn are not able to give their information out to others. To take this final step in the matter of education, the department of pedagogy has adopted the plan of giving...