Word: drawback
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...captain); Appleton, '86; Rogers, '87; Caldwell, '87; Middlebrook, '87; Hartridge, '87; Farrington, '86; S. Farrington, '88; Stevenson, '88; and Woodruff, '89. Peters has positively refused to sit in the boat again, and Paton has not yet appeared at the boat house. Captain Cowles finds the optional system a serious drawback to his getting the men out together and thus far not very satisfactory results have been attained. - Post...
...morning was showery, but a little afternoon the weather had cleared so that by the time the sports were called it was bright and clear, the only drawback being a strong wind up the home stretch and a slight heaviness of the track. The grand stand was crowded with the supporters of the teams from ten different colleges, and at times of excitement the din of the varied cheers was tremendous. Harvard, Yale, Columbia, University of Pennsylvania, Lafayette, University of Michigan, Princeton, Leigh, Trinity and St. Johns, each sent at least one representative athlete, the Harvard delegation being the largest...
...Great labor has been expended upon the stage fittings of the play, and if success is deserved by hard and conscientious work the Shakspere Club need not fear for the success of their great venture. The peculiar formation of the stage in Sanders was found to be a great drawback to an easy utilization of the entire space, and it was only by employing a frieze to conceal the supports of the music loft that any degree of success could be attained. Upon either side of the stage will be a Roman house containing each a door. The back...
...fourteen or fifteen years old, and there can be no comparison made. The contrast is too startling and decisive. The one disadvantage of a college man entering business is, that his age is too advanced by the time he leaves college; but this is a drawback that can be overcome, provided the man is sensible enough to accept petty duties at two and twenty, and not be above learning the rudimentary duties of business life. The failure of so many college educated men in business may be attributed to this foolish pride of age, this refusal to do what must...
...having a synopsis of the work and a guide for outside reading, but also because there are some things which he says which it is impossible to find elsewhere, or, if to be found at all, only after toilsome research. If the disagreeableness of note-taking were the only drawback, we would have little to complain of; but the great trouble is that while industriously taking down some important portion of thought, and are henceforth unable to profit by the instructor's remarks. If, now, there were in our curriculum a voluntary course in stenography, we might be able...