Word: lacks
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...have been led to these remarks by a feeling that the existing monotony comes quite as much from an erroneous idea of expense (which I wish to remove), and from laziness, as from the lack of taste or the depreciation of the artistic; and I for one should very much like to see more individuality displayed in our rooms...
...have been acquiring it. Seniors, as a general rule, take four three-hour electives. They are obliged to take twelve hours, and this is ordinarily the most convenient division of the twelve. It often happens that one of the four courses has some particular interest which the others lack, or two may interest a man and the other two bore him; or he may search the list in vain for four courses all of which he is willing and able to take, and find perhaps three; settle upon them, then discover that every other course he wants conflicts with...
...however bothered you may be about the best way to make both ends meet, don't complain aloud. A man who is known to be in want of cash is very apt to find himself in want of friends too; but a person who does not talk of any lack of money is not generally suspected of anything worse than a slight tendency to avarice, which, on the whole, is a desirable characteristic. In money matters your policy ought to be this: to seem to have twice as much as you spend; and to spend about half as much...
...affairs. We shall not moralize upon the terrible enormity of indulging in "cane rushes." This amusement was never popular in Cambridge, and we cannot judge of the pleasure to be derived from it. But the breaking of pledges is a thing not to be treated lightly; it shows a lack of the commonest sense of honor which throws into the shade a disregard of finer points. The long list of colleges at which hazing has caused trouble this fall excuses us for thanking heaven that we are not as others...
...have our last year made up of "all work and no play." Complaints come to us already that the conclusion of the nursery proverb will be fulfilled in our case. The University will lose that social tone for which it has so long been justly famous. Life here will lack the brilliancy that has distinguished it in times gone by, and will degenerate into one "demmed horrid grind." We confess that the aspect of the picture seems to us threatening in the extreme. But let us struggle hard against this advancing tide of labor...