Word: factor
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...making an arrangement like this for the whole college year, it is very desirable that all who are affected by its provisions should state their wishes or objections before it is too late. Especially now when the tendency of the students selection of studies is such an important factor in the composition or our elective pamphlet, must it be pleasant to hear honestly-meant suggestions from every side and to hear them while it is yet time to comply with them. The final assignment of the annual examinations will also soon be out. But this list cannot appear till...
...real question. It is well to bear in mind that the old adage of a "stitch in time saves nine" is as true as ever it was, and the feeling of distrust which is prevalent at Yale, if not done away with at once, will be a disagreeable factor in all our athletic relations with that college for the future. There should be no false sentiment that the class would be "going back on itself," if another meeting should be held, and especially should the feeling be avoided that Yale is attempting to "bully" Harvard into rowing, as we have...
...splendid idea to have Princeton, Harvard and Yale in one league. Columbia is entirely a new factor. The team has but two of its nine of 1886, and enters the new league under the most unfavorable conditions. If it makes a good showing, it will be contrary to expectations. The impression prevails that the Columbia nine will be the weak member of the quartet, inferior to the Dartmouth and Williams nines surely, and perhaps to the other two clubs of the old league. The triangular league would have undoubtedly been the best in every way, for the objections that were...
...days in the week have been devoted to sliding bases in the cage. Sliding to bases has been a part of the game of base-ball in which the Harvard nines of the past have been sadly deficient, a faculty which is now everywhere recognized as an important factor in a good all-round player. After the sliding, the dumb-bell drill and run on the track takes place as on any other day. A few times during the winter on very pleasant days the exercise has been varied in so far that the candidates were taken...
...purpose for which they were originally intended subservient to the interests of the more liberal education. As is well known, Harvard was originally founded as a college to train ministers of the gospel; now the college has broadened into a university, while the Divinity School is merely an important factor, but no more. The same is true with the older institutions. and it is only at a comparatively recent date that institutions of learning are founded and endowed in the true sense of a university