Word: factor
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...whatever for their work, and half of them have no education beyond the high school. Half of them again do not stay more than five years in the work, and half of them are not over 25 years of age. Yet without question the teacher is the most important factor in education. Nothing else can count so much. No money the country can spend and no perfection of school organization or administration can compensate for the lack of trained teachers...
...comparative scores the Crimson yearlings show up well, but the weight of the Yale team will be a big factor. From tackle to tackle the Yale line averages over 205 pounds, as against 175 pounds per man for the University. In the backfield Yale also has an advantages of 19 pounds per man. H. Herr, Yale's left guard, will be the heaviest man in the game, weighing 240 pounds, with a height of five feet ten inches...
...Crosscup Occ. and R. P. Parker '22 starred in the first half of the game. Crosscup rushed the ball from mid-field to the Navy 10-yard line, and in the next play carried it across on an end run for a touchdown. Parker's punting was the principal factor in the scrubs' defense system. In the latter half B. Hunneman '22, besides kicking a field goal from the 20-yard line and goal from touchdown, was the only back who was able to gain against the stiffened resistance of the sailors. For the Navy team. Arnold, who by recovering...
...football can get away to a good start, half the battle will be won. A bad beginning was the factor that most handicapped baseball last spring. The early games are important; a string of victories at first gives a team confidence...
Another great factor of the industrial world has been unpatriotic enough, in this most critical stage of reconstruction, to curtail the production of a national essential. In answer to Mr. Wilson's plea for the postponement of their strike until after the labor conference at Washington October 6, the steel workers state: "My president, delay is no longer possible. . . . We fully understand the hardships that will follow, and the reign of terror that unfair employers will institute. The burden falls upon the men, but the great responsibility therefor rests upon the other side." The strikers make no attempt...