Word: factor
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...contests, but gives no definite statement of its policy in the future, preferring to deal with individual schedules rather than with any period as a whole. It accepts the student co-operation most willingly, and will doubtless give the new council every opportunity to prove its worth as a factor in the situation. What promises to be a satisfactory solution seems near at hand--from an undergraduate point of view because there has been no abolition, and because we are ready to co-operate with the Athletic Committee in accepting such reductions as the Committee may deem necessary and harmless...
Certainly if a competition is to be held at all, its terms must be strictly adhered to. When the amount of money collected is made a factor, this is frequently impossible, both because of the inequality of conditions under which the candidates work, and because a good collector is frequently a most unacceptable sort of a manager. As a result unfounded rumors of favoritism have been freely circulated, and the outcome has been unfair to managers and competitors, and a downright injury to the College...
...some time on account of an injury to his hand which he sustained while on duty in one of the ship drills, but has recovered sufficiently to row in the race next Wednesday. The position of stroke, made vacant by the loss of Ingram who was perhaps the greatest factor in the success of the crew last year, has been the most difficult to fill. Kinkaid, the new stroke, is big and powerful, but lacks experience, as he has never stroked before. The other men in the boat have almost all been developed from last year's second crew...
...would be a most excellent unifying factor for future Freshman classes if some such institution existed here; not one of the antiquated and inconvenient buildings of the Yard, but a modern dormitory which could offer to a large number of men comfortable accommodations, possibly a common dining hall to which all members of the class would be eligible, and the greatly increased opportunity for intimate friendship with a larger majority than is possible at present...
...material development that represents the University's highest achievement in the last forty years," he said. "It is the building up of the University as a great factor in education. Harvard is now not only the oldest institution of learning in the United States, but it is the only university in the country organized on a true university basis...