Word: drawback
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...lasting impressions. Yet this play entertained Broadway for a large part of last season, and as a sweetmeat to whet the palate it is a tasty morsel. The action, although a little slow in starting, is brisk throughout the play, and the dialogue is often sparkling. The one real drawback is the lack of reality both in plot and treatment, but this quality is the privilege of the farceur...
...consciously, and not merely hit or miss, and there is no place where such a consciousness could better begin than at Harvard.--We have here all the necessary accessories, the courses, the men, the books,--everything except the proper spirit in the undergraduate. That is our one great drawback. Most of us come here partly because it is the thing to do, partly because we feel that by so doing we shall be better fitted for our future business life, and partly from a desire to learn a little something,--but not one in ten of us comes from...
...responsibility of accomplishing his task well and the knowledge that what he is doing is worth while. But it is so easy to get into and to stay in this activity that many students think it cannot be of any real value. This is its only drawback, and it would seem that Harvard men should be able to see through such a fallacy...
...choosing courses; that they may insure against the annoying Saturday sections by the exercise of discretion. No doubt there are numerous other devices for smoothing the academic faith. Perhaps come new ones will be conceived today. Perhaps some brilliant Sophomore will happen upon a schedule without a single drawback...
...chief drawback in carrying out such a plan, has been the lack of any place for keeping reports, even if they were made. The Class Day records are kept in an inaccesible store room in the basement of Widener; the Student Council records drift from Secretary to Secretary, and are slowly being depleted due to loss and carelessness. The whole difficulty could be nicely settled if the Student Council were given permanent quarters where records of this kind could be kept. The management of the Union has agreed to set aside a room for the use of the Council...