Word: lacking
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Dates: during 1880-1880
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Must I be abrupt in disclosing the denouement? Shall I relate the sad ending of my little romance? I confided in his nobility and childlike lack of culture. I was deceived. I mourn the loss of his manly figure. I miss his artless simplicity of nature. I also miss my jewelry and papa's diamord shirt...
...regretted that so foolish a habit as that of hurrying out of chapel was ever contracted. It is irreverent, to say the least, not to wait in perfect order and decorum until the prayer is entirely finished; such childish lack of courtesy as is frequently displayed in chapel gives any stranger who may happen to be present an unfavorable impression of the good breeding of the students. We trust that there will be no further cause of complaint on this score; for, whatever be our opinions as to the advisability of compulsory attendance at prayers, every sensible person will...
...runners and walkers; and we can only hope that next year the growth of weeds and grass upon the track will not render it so nearly indistinguishable from the rest of the field that our fall meeting will again have to be given up from lack of resources to clear the stubble away...
...trouble. This will certainly prove a great convenience, not only to the hard student, but also to the devotee of light literature, not to mention the occasional user of reference-books. It is difficult to see why the Library should be closed at all Sundays, unless for the lack of means to pay for attendants, but this, like several other recent improvements, is a step in advance, and a proof that Harvard College cannot afford to be bigoted in this liberal-minded...
Since the publication of our best-on-record tables in No. 5 of the present volume of the Crimson, several of the records have been bettered by American amateurs, which are certainly worthy of more than a passing mention, but lack of space will prevent our giving any extended account of the performances. Early in the fall, the tables, corrected up to the date of publication, will be given with each number of the Crimson, but until then the following list of corrections will have to suffice. To begin with the Table of American College records, we have discovered that...