Word: factor
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...writer then mentions at length the social life of the students in the towns, there being very little opportunity for good society save in the families of the professors. "I must not omit one important social factor. Seven miles distant, across the valley, in Northampton, is Smith College, one of the leading woman's colleges in the East, nad a factor not to be ignored in any problem that concerns Amherst. Very few men go through collge without making their bow at Smith at least once, and about a fifth call there frequently. A reception in the winter, a concert...
...resolved to widen the range of observation, believing that on the simple factor, weight, height, and chest girths, could not be based a true estimate of ones physical condition. Realizing how much depends upon the proportion of the different parts of the body, he began his observations by an extended series of measurements. His next aim was to test the strength of the most important parts, for although as a rule, the girths of the different limbs represent the potential strength of their respective muscles, yet there are many exceptions, and the measurements have to be confirmed by an actual...
...Competition with free labor is an insignificant factor.- N. Y. Nation. Vol. 40, p. 195; Science, Vol. 7, pp. 68, 143, 220; Massachusetts Report of the Statistics of Labor. 1879, pp. 24. 32; Report of U. S. Commissioner of Labor, 1886, chap...
...unheard-of suggestion, but "fair play" ought to be one of Harvard's mottoes, and we are sure the cricket eleven will repay whatever small amout of care and attention it may please the mighty lords of the athletic association to bestow upon that very deserving but much-abused factor of Harvard atheletics...
...that every other nine is in the same position, when defeated on a field away from home. But is this any argument why this nuisance should not be done away with, or why Harvard should not take the first step in abolishing a proceeding that is without doubt a factor in the much debated ill-feeling in college base-ball...