Word: lacks
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...point we tried to bring out clearly was, not why we should have more and better music at Harvard, but why we do not have it. This we traced back to the prevailing lack of energy, for which we could neither account nor propose any remedy...
Columbia-Oxford. In our last issue lack of space prevented us from commenting on the letter from Cambridge, Mass., to a New York daily quoted in this column. The correspondent from Cambridge entirely misunderstood Captain Bancroft when he wrote that "Harvard feels badly because Oxford has not challenged her rather than Columbia." We wish to correct this statement, which places us in a false position. No such feeling prevails at Harvard either among the men of the crew or among the students...
There is the Art Club, which is devoted to collecting bric-a-brac, and emitting sparks of culture. There is the K. N., which supplies the lack which has so long been felt of an opportunity for developing the polemical and oratorical powers of the undergraduate. The Rifle Club, although it has not succeeded in arranging a match with any but the Cambridge team, has done noble service to the College papers in supplying them with frequent and remarkable scores. An historical society was the last thing discussed ; but the Faculty, recognizing the "social tendency" of these "mutual improvement societies...
This piece is written, not for the purpose of fault-finding, but with the earnest hope that a little more energy will be shown in musical circles in college. It is not from a lack of musical talent in Harvard students that we have no more nor better music here, nor again from a lack of first tenor voices. It is energy that is lacking...
...larger sphere for his brother at the Secretary's office. It is a well-known fact that censure-marks and the like can be removed by depositing in the Dean's box a suitable petition; and yet this simple remedy is seldem adopted. This is caused, not by lack of excuses, for, since the hard times began, physician's certificates have been unusually cheap, but by the natural aversion all students feel towards U. 5. Only the longest experience will enable a man to calmly draw near that fatal threshold and unmoved send up his petition. Again, some...