Word: factor
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...marks and severity of examinations usually given, in selecting a course; but that with many this thought does have some influence, cannot be denied, and as long as there is no perfectly uniform system of marking adopted in the college, it is very reasonable that one should consider this factor in solving the weighty problem of electives, however unfortunate and harmful, theoretically, the practice may be. The marking system when in use at all should be merely a clerical devise for the classification of students, but when every instructor is permitted to ride his pet hobby rough shod over...
...fall they also play in the class series, which is of great assistance. The nine is for the most part picked out in the fall. Again, in the spring they get on the field before we do. They also practice with the consolidated nine, which is an important factor in Yale's base-ball success...
...cooperation is to be secured for one scheme, when it is denied to the other. "United we stand, divided we fall," would seem to be a necessary motto for the two representative schemes of cooperation at Harvard, and the result either way rests with the dubious factor of public spirit among her students. There has now come a time when the notorious question of "Harvard indifference" can receive a categorical answer, and the burden of the responsibility for a positive or a negative answer rests equally with each and every Harvard student in this year...
...especially worth the effort, as we have men who seem capable of success in this event if trained and pushed for it. In several other events we shall probably bring out some strong contestants, whose success in any one instance would prove gratifying. '85 is an unknown factor as yet in these calculations, and all look to her with the greatest interest in the coming in-door athletic games this month, and upon the training field when spring opens...
...considers the time-honored traditions of college and of class life. It is undoubtedly true that this same traditional class spirit, notwithstanding the emphatic reaction that seems to be going on at present in this country, is steadily losing ground and growing less and less important as a factor of college life. And this is not to be regretted; for, in proportion as the narrower spirit of class declines, a broader university spirit springs up in its place. Harvard has reached a successful mean between a too intense class spirit and a too bloodless university spirit, barring perhaps a partial...