Word: drawback
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...direct cost of culture, the Scotch, have long since made up their minds upon the subject. They do not want to be soft-mannered men, or refined men, or refined men, or reflective men, but to be efficient men; yet they hold university training a help, and not a drawback, and except when defeated by want of means or other special circumstances, never fail to get it for their sons. All Scotchmen are not graduates, but in theory the Scotchman - who, be it remembered, is not led away on the subject either by flunkyism or sentiment, or any strong wish...
...young men and women, and which excludes other personal association, is the system which for years the Tribune has heartily advocated. There may be a better co-educational system; but of this at least it is known that its advantages have been thoroughly proved. That it has no drawback whatever has also been proved - and proved, too, by authorities which no American college of high or low degree has a right to disregard. The sooner Harvard University admits women upon exactly the same terms with Oxford the better for her reputation for intelligence and usefulness. Meanwhile, if any generous person...
There are few courses in which a man can gain more knowledge of a language, or more working acquaintance with it, than in the so-called composition courses; the only serious drawback to such courses is the great amount of time required to prepare the work well. This could be readily remedied if recitations in such courses were held once a week, but where the instructor meets his class but once a week a large amount of work must be assigned in order to derive any satisfactory results. This has been especially noticed by members of German 4, where conversational...
...success. It is certainly an innovation that gives great promise for the future in broadening the aims and increasing the opportunities of the college. Its direct results, of course, are not made apparent by examinations as in all other courses; but this is hardly to be called a drawback to the system. It may perhaps come to pass that this innocent experiment shall result in showing the authorities that it is possible for men to acquire useful knowledge in certain subjects by such means, without having that knowledge afterwards clinched by the painful process of examination. This result can only...
...success of the first Spring Meeting of the Hare and Hounds was attended with only one drawback, the small number of students who ran. The course selected was a very good one, and the time (35 min.) for the five miles was excellent. Perhaps the small number of entries was due to the recollection of the fifteen-mile run last fall; but if the Athletic Association would let it be fully understood that the course is to be five or six miles, and in no case any farther, we have no doubt that we shall see again as many Hounds...