Word: drawback
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Yale eleven began the season with rather a gloomy outlook inasmuch as it was necessary to find two entirely new tackles and three of the four men behind the line. Another drawback was the lack of coaches in the early part of the season when so much depended upon their help for the formation of team work. The eleven has also been handicapped by the loss of scheduled games that have been cancelled at the last minute...
...covering immense amounts of matter, a class has no time to wait till every individual is absolutely sure of every point. A few minutes might well be given at the close of each hour for private conference between instructor and pupil, and the class thus freed from this unnecessary drawback. Unless some such plan is adopted, the courses where these thieves of time are present must be much less valuable than they otherwise would...
...stormy weather of yesterday was a drawback on the success of the hare and hounds run and tended to diminish the usual large attendance. However, about twenty five men turned out and enjoyed the sport. A good trail was laid by J. Manley '93 and J. L. Coolidge '95 who acted as hares. The paper led across different yards down to the Charles river, through Allston, where the hounds had some difficulty in following the scent. Thence the trail crossed through Brighton, Brookline and around the reservoir, terminating at the Cambridge end of the Harvard bridge. A. L. Endicott...
...establishing of the Harvard station at Peru has opened up the greatest possibilities for our University in the line of development of astronomical study. A great drawback to accurate observation and the use of large apparatus at Cambridge has been the atmospheric conditions. In Peru, however, the atmospheric conditions are most extraordinarily favorable for the study the heavens; although the chief object of the recent very successful expedition to Peru by Prof. W. H. Pickering was the photographing of the planet Mars, yet the careful visual observations were made at the same time which have led to most interesting results...
...crews of both Yale and Harvard undergo before the final struggle on the Thames, but also general features of the life at New London for both crews and spectators, the routine at the quarters, the gaieties at the hotels. One point which the author specially dwells on is the drawback which the crews, and especially the losing crew, have to experience in the race from the surface-suction of the steamers which are following in their wake. He comes to the conclusion that the Conneticut Congressmen should see that a law should be passed for the police regulation...