Word: factor
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...open to the Sophomore class. The men taken on the board will become assistant business managers in their Junior year and one will become business manager in his Senior year. The competitive work required consists mainly in securing subscriptions and advertisements with general business efficiency as a recognized factor. Men in this competition not only come in intimate contact with undergraduate life, but gain a large amount of practical experience from their business relations with firms in Boston, New York, and other cities...
...adequate basis. The only other School of Tropical Medicine for civilians is that of Tulane University, New Orleans, and it seems to your committee highly desirable that the School be maintained. The tropics are steadily increasing in economic importance, and in their development by the white man the factor of health is far from the least. The building of the Panama Canal was conditioned on the mastery of yellow fever and malaria. As evidence of the realization of the importance of modern medicine, we may mention that Professor Strong was two years ago appointed director of laboratories to the United...
...baseball team defeated Groton 4 to 2 at Groton yesterday afternoon in a fast well-played game. For the Freshmen, Gross was the most important factor in the victory, getting three hits out of three times at bat, two of the hits being doubles, and the other, a single. Felton pitched effectively, and received excellent support from his infield...
...question of bringing this branch of the sport up to at least a level of mediocrity, if not of excellence, presents no inherent difficulty. Natural ability in the jumps and weights is not nearly so important a factor as in the running events. Honest effort on the part of reasonably well-conformed men under the direction of efficient coaching is all that is essential...
...While the Yale junior eight will have the advantage of one year's more experience, the University Sophomore crew has five oarsmen and a coxswain who have all had training at Red Top last spring. The stroking of F. G. Balch, Jr., '18 is also a very valuable factor to the 1918 crew...