Word: factor
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...interesting letter in yesterday's Advertiser "A. A. H." discusses the value of the Harvard Club of New York as a factor in social life of the metropolis. Great expectations are entertained of the coming banquet of the club. The club now contains about 270 members...
...thoughtless conservatives generally. This correspondent points out the well-enough recognized fact that the average age of entrance at Harvard now is about the same as that of graduation fifty years ago, and indeed of graduation now from some of the smaller colleges. This brings an entirely new factor into the question which did not exist then, but which now entirely changes its character. Then, of course, it was proper that a strict discipline and oversight of the students should be maintained by the college; now it is not to be asked for or desired. Furthermore, as to the elective...
...Finance Club lectures are as follows: Feb. 26, Col. T. W. Higginson, "Young Men in Politics." March 4, E. Atkinson, Esq., "The Railway System of the United States considered as a Factor in the Polity of Great Britain and America." March 11, E. Atkinson, Esq., "A National Banking System Essential to the Effective Working of the Railway Service, and to the Subsistence of the People." March 18, Gamaliel Bradford, Esq., "The Modern Use and Abuse of Credit." Lectures begin, in Boylston Hall, at 7.30 P.M. Tickets free, to be had at Sever's, or of members of the Club...