Word: lacking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With rare exceptions all the current red scares in the universities, which have been getting much undeserved publicity on the front pages of the country, have as much fact behind them as the present comic-opera skirmish at Williamstown. Rebuffed by a deplorable lack of hospitality on the part of the Williams student body, the embassy of good will from Boston's over-lighted watch-towers will make a hasty return to the genial city where its efforts to save America from looming chaos receive the appreciation they deserve...
...Beans & Babies. To Dr. Willard Myron Allen, 30, serious, bespectacled chemist of the University of Rochester, Eli Lilly & Co. gave $1,000 for isolating the female hormone, progestin. Progestin is essential for the creation of perfect children. Since Dr. Allen showed the way, women who lack progestin can buy it from druggists. Manufacturers get their supplies from the ovaries of pigs. Last week Dr. Allen retailed the important news, fresh from Danzig, that Dr. Adolph Butenandt had discovered a way of making progestin from the wax of soy beans...
...call for teachers in this field at present far exceeds the supply, it is held, because of a lack of such specialized graduate study...
...rather than to the cultural activity and educational advancement of their alma maters. This perennial collegiatism cannot be blamed on the earnest graduates so much as the empty spirit that has pervaded so many of our campuses from the beginning of the century. It is another example of the lack of perspective with which past generations of college men have been imbued...
...gradations of rowing will be offered since in the early afternoon a schoolboy regatta will be held over the three quarter mile course off Magazine beach, while at 2 o'clock the House crews, admittedly unfinished, but making up in spirit of pure amateurism what they lack in smoothness, will splash over the Henley course for the honor of racing Yale...