Word: factor
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...money has been held the highest power. Scientists believe knowledge to be the greatest ruling power. Yet no one of these powers can be truly called king of mankind. Money, that is representative of all material good, indeed secures obedience from all men. It is essential, too, as a factor in our every-day life. But, far from spreading a spirit of concord among its subjects, it arouses strife and discord among them...
...should like to call attention to the badly ventilated condition of the Harvard Cooperative tailor shop. If the miserable condition of the place is not a disgrace to the college, it is at least a material factor in reducing the receipts of the society. Moreover, I wish for one to protest emphatically against any Harvard organization's compelling laborers to work in such an atmosphere through...
...odds the most interesting and important topic which American college students will have to deal with for some time. Athletics have held full sway in college life for a good many years and have been the sole subject for intercollegiate competition; but as the all-important factor in college life they have had their day. They will continue to be important, but they must share importance with contests of intellect and oratory. In the organization of this new movement for the equality of brain and muscle, Harvard adds one more to her long line of important initiatives...
...part of the world and until they realize that they are citizens and that they have the duties and opportunities of citizens, they must be accounted narrow minded. As citizens, as intelligent beings, who are enjoying exceptional advantages, college men have a right to be a factor in the national thought and the national speech. The new plan asserts exactly this right. If debates are held as proposed, simultaneously throughout the country, and reports of the debates are published in the best magazines, American citizens will read college opinion with interest and with profit; the students will take more interest...
...indicate any change in the character of the service. The aim of the remarks will be, as it has always been, to suggest thoughts which will be of help for the life of an ordinary day; the choir will continue its pleasant part of the service; and the other factor, the attitude of the students, will surely be what it has been, one of interest and support...