Word: lacking
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...long and uninteresting game was played on Holmes field yesterday afternoon between the 'varsity nine and the professional Lowell team. So few spectators attended the game that there was some excuse for the utter lack of life which the Harvard team showed. The fielding was by no means clean, and all the infielders made very bad errors. The batting was even weaker, while the coaching was contemptible. At no point in the game did the home team show the slightest energy. In the Yale game on Thursday, Harvard will not have the slightest chance if she plays a game anything...
Students in Electrical engineering at Harvard have in the past had to contend against the serious difficulty of having almost no opportunity for practical manual work. The lack of facilities for such work shop training has been noticed as the number of men taking electrical studies has increased. We are glad to see that arrangements have been made by which students can have the necessary advantages in manuel work. The facilities are still very limited, yet we recognize a great advance over the opportunities of the present year, when no more than two men could do any machine work...
...crew has been coached by Alexander, L. S., and has done good work under his charge; he will coach the crew while at New London. The members of the crew are too young, and consequently have not control of their bodies and lack firmness and precision, The crew is much younger than usual, the average age being only about eighteen years. They are not steady, and are stiff and "loggy;" they roll badly and therefore their time is bad; their blade work is sloppy. The members of the crew are very absent-minded, and this tends to increase the faults...
...Note of Provinciality in Miss Austen's Novels," R. E. N. Dodge gives an exhaustive criticism of one side of Miss Austen's writings. He considers her "provincial" of course in her range of subjects, and "provincial" as far as this term signifies "lack of deep insight;" but this quality has aided her chief merit, precision, while it has not led to trivialness...
...gained by a mere rehearsal of the very uninteresting story again. We should think that the college would want to forget the whole unfortunate affair as soon as possible. And as for the alleged apathy of the class in supporting its crew, it would seem that this lack of support is the result of ignorance of the financial condition of the management rather than of any niggardly disposition on the part of the class, for certainly Ninety-two has supported her other athletic teams in a manner with which fault cannot be found...