Word: factor
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...number of students at the Summer Schools this year was a little under three hundred. There has been an impression among many that the Summer Schools have been a factor in the late increase in the regular students in the University. This is not the case, as the Summer Schools have not been reckoned...
Harvard's representatives in the intercollegiate games will be very largely the same men who won the victory over Yale for us last Saturday. The experience which they gained on that day ought to come in well and to prove an aiding factor in winning renown next week Saturday. At the intercollegiate games, however, there are bound to be many circumstances which will work to the disadvantage of the team. The competition of many different sets of men will prove one of these disadvantages; strange grounds and a lack of the heartiest support may prove equally detrimental...
...graduates. They have gained their help through the medium of the Graduate Advisory Committees; and Harvard can attribute much to her recent athletic awakening of the energy of the men who make up these committees. We have had occasion of late frequently to speak of the important factor which these committees have become in the successful administration of our athletics. Since these bodies will form no small part in our success or failure, it may be well to give an idea how they are chosen...
...said here. As we have no control over the water, a crew that loses a race because the water was against them will not be blamed. As to the boat it is the duty of those in authority to secure the best boat obtainable, in order that this factor in a race shall at least not be against them...
Coming now to the last factor, the word "stroke" might be substituted for "method," and the following sub-division adopted: 1. Skill and form. 2. Time. 3. Recover. According to some, all that may be said upon rowing may be included under the head of "skill;" "form," referring to the appearance of similarity and uniformity throughout the crew. It will be apparent that both "form" and "skill" are dependent upon certain constituent elements. Two of these, "time" and "recover" may be considered in another letter...