Word: drawback
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...said, comes to work of a commonplace character too often. There is a course of indolence which hangs over work in art. The artist is compelled to choose between two audiences, the public or his fellow artists. The public are the makers of the artist's notoriety. The great drawback upon an artist's work is the "art-loafer" who talks himself and the artist into notoriety. Too easy publicity prevents the artist of to-day from standing out as did the masters of old. We do not know our great men. In art we want the work...
...quackery. This side of the profession may be removed by the admission of educated practitioners. At the same time young men should not be advised to become physicians. Medicine must be put on a more scientific basis. Lack of possibility of intelligent appreciation of good work, is a great drawback. The sketch of the physician in Middle-march is good, though by a woman, - one of a sex which we have taken a good deal of pains to exclude from the profession. The functions of the physician are extending to matters of insanity, sanitary engineering, etc. The underlying diathesis...
...interesting to know and to remember as one of those college ceremonies that are rapidly dying out in our higher institutions of learning as they gradually advance nearer to the state of the ideal university. Although such progress works incalculable good, it has, I think, this one drawback; that it involves a loss of many customs that showed, if you will, a more boyish and consequently less properly developed state of feeling, but that still constituted in a great measure that part of college life which one cares to recall in after years...
...early yet to make any prediction as to the make up of the crew, but without doubt the men composing it will be very strong oarsmen. It is, of course, a great drawback that these men have had little or no experience on the water, but still, with the assistance of a good coach, the Yale crew promises to be as strong this year as it has ever been...
...glad to notice the successful result of the Advocate's enterprise as shown in the last issue. The prize story by Mr. Mitchell, and the prize essay by Mr. Sempers, are certainly productions of very considerable merit. The verse is unusually good, and indeed the only drawback to a complete enjoyment of the number is the fact that Zadoc did not die; perhaps he will be expelled, though, who knows? The editors promise us a rich treat in the next number, marking the completion of the fortieth volume of Harvard's oldest paper. The number will be entirely made...