Word: drawbacks
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...soon plunges inmedias res. The work laid out before one is work in special branches and along special lines. One of the troubles found by the enthusiastic American, is to know, not what to take, but what not to take. The great richness of the field is rather a drawback than an aid, for it is seldom that one is reduced to a "Hobson's choice." The subjects to be "read" upon are so varied, so alluring, so rich, that only the man of fixed purpose, or of one idea, can pass through a couple of years without wasting some...
...great success attending the first of the lectures on the Civil War, delivered under the auspices of the Historical Society, is certainly encouraging to that organization. The only drawback was the lack of room, which clearly shows that Sever Hall is not the place for the remaining lectures of the course. Why a lecture in Sanders should be such a rare treat to us we fail to understand. The principal reason that suggests itself is the fear of the lecturer being unable to distinguish his audience among so many empty seats. But this fear need not trouble the succeeding lecturers...
...public and they learn the true state of affairs, it is to be hoped that they will still continue to be candidates. They have had as long experience as most of the men who have signed to go, and certainly stand a good chance of being selected. The only drawback is that no Harvard man was chosen to form part of the remainder of the team. Harvard certainly deserved a place on it for the reasons mentioned above. But the men already selected are supposed to be impartial, and we shall have to entrust the chances...
...hardest things which my successor will find to deal with will be the diffidence of a great many men who might do well in some event. As the success of the meetings is materially increased by a large number of entries this diffidence a great drawback. I have been very much struck with this ever since I have been connected with the association and I believe everything should be done to dispel it. I have no doubt that there are some men in each class who if they were not afraid of "making fools of themselves," as the saying...
...conditions of men whose work can be learned well when the mind has lost its first pliability. That a certain stiffness of mind, an inability to accommodate itself to new work of any kind, is the result, and the single result, of university training which acts as a drawback to success in practical life...