Word: drawback
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Last year the ice polo team won every game they played, and as the material is as good this year, a strong team could be turned out if the weather would permit more frequent practice. The distance of the ponds has also been a drawback...
...Meyer 1901, and G. O. Seward '98, will represent Columbia, the two substitutes being G. R. Jacobus '98, and K. G. Falk 1901 S. Columbia's players have one great drawback, in their inexperience, but to offset this they have had the best of coaching by H. N. Pillsbury, the well-known expert...
...such general interest that it is rather an exceptional number. As is only natural Lampy is apt to get into a rut and find it difficult to cater to the demands of the college public. Taken as a whole, however, the present issue is eminently successful. There is one drawback. Take-offs on college professors form part of the Lampoon's ordinary stock in trade, are usually harmless, and often true to life. The take-off in the present number is not wholly of this description and might well be suppressed...
...understood that no individual shall hold more than one office. On the other hand, it would be a misfortune to the class, in case of a contest over a marshalship, for instance, to deprive the defeated candidate of all chance to be placed lower down on the list. This drawback, which seems an essential part of any system of secret ballot, should if possible be eliminated, and we urge most earnestly that every effort be made to remove such difficulties in the wisest possible manner...
From the first the only drawback to entering the crew was a lack of funds, but the graduates have started the subscriptions very liberally by giving one fourth of the necessary amount, while it is hoped that the rest may be raised by the undergraduates. No canvassing will be done, but a blue-book has been placed in Leavitt's and all who can are asked to subscribe something, in order that the money may be raised before College closes...