Word: lacking
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...acquiesence of the student body to the ensconsced pattern intensifies rather than alleviates the Eastern provincialism that characterizes the Harvard undergraduate. Provincialism here means something other than the narrowness and lack of cultural feeling which the term usually connotes. It is rather a posture of universality, created by the sense of being superlative in certain areas. New York City is in this way an example of provincialism, in that the staunch, chauvinistic New Yorker sees his city as a microcosm of the universe, and believes that everything important in the world is in some way embraced by New York. Similarly...
House athletics, "a fundamental part of the whole system," draws criticism for its lack of organization. The Committee recommends additional coaches, to be paid by the University. According to the report, this step would eliminate confusion, lighten the burden of the Athletic Secretary, and "add certain incentive and spirit to the team effort...
...telephone is a Jekyll and Hyde invention, a curse and plague as often as it is a convenience. We list our present lack of a telephone as our greatest luxury. We no longer must drop whatever we are doing, day or night, and run to answer that raucous bell. I now have leisure to pursue a hobby, enjoy good music, read a book or converse with my wife. We are not dragged off against our will to meetings. We no longer must put up with the leechlike telephone salesmen and solicitors. Meanwhile, our health is better as we have eliminated...
...mass rally in Atlanta last week, Southern moderates spoke with a fervor and eloquence they often lack. Said Sylvan Meyer, 37, editor of north Georgia's Gainesville Times: "Our state leaders have failed us miserably. The doctrine of state sovereignty died at Appomattox and was reinterred at Little Rock." His applauding listeners: 1,500 parents, civic leaders and students, members of a brand-new organization of protesting moderates, HOPE, Inc. (for Help Our Public Education) and its student counterpart, SOS (Students for Open Schools...
Later Rutstein lectured the two speakers on the lack of funds for operating a medical building once it had been constructed. "It is important," he added, "that we discuss the technical facts of Federal aid to medicine...