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"Nor are the customs of the East quite what many a clergyman would approve of," continued Malkiel. "Yet even this was not what weighed most with Madame." "What was it then?" inquired the Prophet, deeply interested. "Sir, it was the Eastern language." "Ah!" "Could we let our children learn to speak it? Could we bear to launch them in life, handicapped, weighed down by such a tongue?
That, though the occupations named are entirely normal to all well-ordered states, descendants of persons in those occupations tend to become "subnormal" so runs the cant of it something handicapped by that haphazard bullet of a lifetime since, fired to advance the glorious cause of foreign commerce, or the like. Mr.
True, many have been successful with a very different attitude, but engineers of the future must see to it that as many of the phases are as favorable as can be made so. Regarding the absorption of the knowledge of working mechanism in the works this is greatly facilitated by a wholesome relationship with other workers, and it is greatly handicapped without it.
With reference to instruction in medicine and surgery, and in dentistry, the institution is handicapped by the lack of a suitable hospital and clinic. As a result those who wish to adopt any of these professions pursue their studies abroad, if possible, and all the best known physicians are graduates of foreign universities. The entire annual appropriation for the University is only about $24,000.
It is not enough that the blind man or woman shall have physical strength, but his training must be so well balanced as to give him poise as well as vigor. It does not suffice that the blind man shall be as well educated as his fellow who sees. Handicapped by the loss of the most important of his special senses, he must supplement this deficiency by a better training of his mind and body.
Without vanity he was proud of it, for fate had handicapped him at the beginning, and still he had won out.
Reinforcements were expected from home, and possibly from Japan; but the squadrons were not unequally matched in weight of metal, though the British were handicapped by the diversity and antiquity of their armament.
Seems that was some stunt, too, for if he'd been caught at it he'd have found a swift finish against the nearest wall. Course, he had to go in disguise, but he was handicapped by havin' red hair. Not so vivid as mine, the Señor assures me, but red enough so he wouldn't be mistaken easy for a Spaniard.
In this Harvey excelled Dan, for he had inherited a head for figures, and the notion of stealing information from one glimpse of the sullen Bank sun appealed to all his keen wits. For other sea-matters his age handicapped him. As Disko said, he should have begun when he was ten.
In their stead is an alert, untiring, relentless Nemesis, more pitiless because of intense, novel zeal. But Sir Donald is handicapped. Not that time or money is lacking. These are available. What about Esther? Her comment upon the absence of Oswald and Alice that night had been painfully distinct. The unmistaken, mute language of her eyes and quivering lips was clearer.
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