Word: lacks
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...committee regret to report that the Lacrosse association, one of the associations party to the Articles of Agreement, dissuaded in the spring in consequence of lack of financial support...
...second half the ball changed from side to side in rapid succession. The Athletic men showed lack of wind while the Harvard men played with a great deal of snap. Twenty-five minutes were passed without scoring when Curtis kicked and Harvard got the ball on the five yard line. Then on rushes by Mason and Curtis the ball was carried over the line. Fitzhugh kicked a goal. Score 10-6. Time was soon called with the ball in the middle of the field. The teams were maed up as follows...
...opened, however, it is fitting that the question should again be agitated. The advantages of the desired improvement are too obvious to need even enumeration. its effects could not fail to be beneficial to all concerned, and of course the only possible drawback to the project would be the lack of money for its success. And yet it does seem almost a disgrace that such an obstacle should be so powerful. There certainly is no improvement needed half so much as the one for which we now ask. Our president himself has already called careful attention to the subject...
...contents of the number are on the whole good. The opening editorial is written in a strong vigorous spirit, and summarizes in a very successful way the causes of our lack of success in athletics in recent years. It is only too true that one of the fatal weaknesses of the college in an athletic way is our proneness to one-man dependence, or as the Advocate terms it, "the star system." A result of this is that we are easily discouraged; let anything happen to our star and we become despondent and down on our luck, lose half...
...college songs by the Glee club ought to call forth many good pieces. In former years the club has been dependent on the voluntary efforts of men in and out of college who were willing to give their time to the work of composition. There has never been a lack of good songs but by the new scheme it is hoped that this year there will be a larger and better collection to choose from. Professor Paine's courses in Music afford a good training in composition, and there are undoubtedly many in college who understand the subject well enough...