Word: factor
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Union to Sheff. membership and the establishment of a branch Y. M. C. A. for the Scientific School. In regard to the union, the change has already made encouraging progress and it is only a matter of time, for the Sheff. Y. M. C. A. to become a leading factor in university work. Work on the Phelps Gateway is progressing rapidly, and when completed it will be a conspicuous ornament to the Campus...
...tenth time Mr. D. L. Moody has invited the students of America to meet at Northfield, Mass., for conference and Bible study under the direction of the College Department of the International Committee of the Young Men's Christian Associations. The Northfield Conference has been a potent factor of recent years in the promotion of Christian life and work among college men, and from it have sprung similar gatherings, at the West, at the South, in England, Germany, Scandinavia, India and Japan...
...increasing attention to scenic effects been an important factor in the decline of the literary drama...
...result, in spite of all his able efforts, was defeat at the hands of both Yale and Princeton. A like outcome of the season this year would be most discouraging. Harvard has long looked to baseball as a reliable factor in her athletic successes, and this year she should not look in vain. We have the captain: the meeting today must give him plenty of material with which to work...
...fashion of the community in which a man lives is the greatest factor in deciding his habits. In Europe, and especially in Germany, every one drinks beer as a matter of course throughout the day, and even in England it is a difficult matter for a water drinker to travel without being practically forced to drink wines of various sorts. But these customs are now giving way to modern ideas, which, fortunately for us, have been characteristic of American life since its beginning...