Word: factor
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...great library is becoming every year a more important factor in college work. Already, in many of the more advanced courses, it is impossible to do much except in the library. The instructors are every year requiring more library work; every year students learn at an earlier period of their college course how to make use of the library, and to accept the great advantages it offers. Under such circumstances we cannot but feel very envious when we read that the library of Columbia College is to be open evenings and lighted by electricity. When we consider that the great...
...constituencies enlarge and public patriotism increases. The great mass of the people are honest in their political beliefs, and arr influenced in their voting only by what they deem best for their country. In conclusion the lecturer said the question to ask was "what is the dominant factor in a campaign?" and the answer is "enthusiasm." Take away enthusiasm from a political campaign and little is left. In many instances the party in the ascendant is defeated solely on account of a lack of this necessity. Professor Bryce's remarks were exceedingly instructive and entertaining...
...taught dogmatically what he shall and what he shall not believe. Our university is founded only to teach men how to think, and not what to think. It must, therefore be unsectarian, but on this account it does not become irreligious. Freedom of worship is a necessary factor in any liberal form of government. And moreover, on the score that the influence here is toward indidelity we emphatically deny the charge. There is every good influence at work here if a man will only take them, in culture, in education and in religion...
...brings to mind a question in which all of us must be more or less interested-whether a college paper ought to have complete freedom to express its opinions. Every one has heard from his infancy the trite old maxim that the "freedom of the press is a necessary factor in a free country," until we have come to regard the press as the very impersonation of liberty. It is taken as a self-evident fact. But when as students we turn to the college papers, and ask ourselves how much freedom they should be allowed, we straightway find ourselves...
...leave quite a large surplus for this year's expenses, that the team does not need money, although all the important games will be played away from Cambridge this year, where the team will not have the support of the college either financially or otherwise. The most important factor in the calculation for the expenses of the year is the Yale game at New York on Thanksgiving Day. Should the weather on that day be unfavorable our main reliance will be gone. The team needs support and is certainly doing all it can to show that it deserves...