Word: drawback
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...been begun, but the supporting iron cross beams are all in place and the actual work of laying the floors will be begun as soon as is practicable. Throughout the whole building every care has been taken to add to the convenience of the rooms, and the only drawback is in the apparent lowness of the ceilings. Perhaps this defect is only a seeming one, however, which will disappear when the rooms have been plastered and floored. The building will contain about fifty-five suites of rooms, all of which will be conveniently large and well-lighted...
...following clipping, after Professor Norton's lecture on Tuesday evening, may be interesting, and will give an idea of what is being done in the way of excavation by the Americans in Greece. Lack of funds, it will be seen, is the great drawback to greater and more systematic work. It is to be hoped that the money now being collected in New York will soon be at the disposal of the proper authorities. Then can we look forward to the accomplishment of good work by American archaeologists...
...have the members of the freshman class come to hear him, as his remarks often bear upon the work done in the class room. The first lecture of the series will be on the city of Venice, and will be delivered next Thursday evening in Boylston Hall. The only drawback to these lectures is that the room in which they are given is invariably too small to accommodate all those who wish to attend, but it is the only available room in which the stereopticon-with which he generally illustrates his lectures-can be used to advantage...
...opening number of the program was Mendelssohn's march. Opus 108, which was rendered by the Pierian Sodality. The Pierian has received many valuable acquisitions in the way of new players, the places of several men whose loss, it was feared, would be a serious drawback to the success of Sodality this year, being filled by new players of unusual merit The march was played with unusual fire and vigor and was received with hearty applause by a very appreciative audience...
...goes through college without taking at least two courses in that study. The opportunities afforded in the most advanced courses is unexcelled, which, perhaps, accounts for the large number of men who come here to make a specialty of the study of natural history. The only drawback now is that the present building is too small for all the demands made upon it, but the new addition will obviate this difficulty and add much to the usefulness of the natural history department...