Word: factor
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...educational factor, and as a school of government, the initiative and referendum cannot be overestimated. There has been an extraordinary increase in liberality, toleration, and, in the case of the single tax, commonsense conservatism in the state since the adoption of the measures...
...fourth game on October 12 was with Virginia Polytechnic Institute and was won by a score of 31 to 0. Here again the Princeton backfield was the most conspicuous factor, its members breaking through the visitors' defence repeatedly for gains of from 10 to 60 yards. Trick plays and secret formations were not used because there was no need of them. E. C. Waller made his first appearance in actual play, and fully equalled Pendleton and Baker as a ground gainer...
Music is a daily increasing factor in Harvard life. In the Musical Review we behold the latest and most potent evidence of its hold on the undergraduate. That the editors should have felt themselves called to the work of issuing a new paper in the face of discouraging odds, and that they persevered and succeeded does them high credit. If the first number is a criterion, the Harvard Musical Review has already taken its place among the undergraduate publications...
...prime requisite to successful singing at the football games is practice. To supply this necessary factor in the development of a singing section several mass meetings are held during the latter part of the season. At these meetings a great deal of time is devoted to rehearsing the familiar songs. This time, so precious in so short a season, might well be employed in learning the new songs, for other opportunities are presented for rehearsing the old. Organized cheering had a successful beginning at the game on Saturday last, and there seems to be no reason for not using some...
...doubtless is well acquainted with the vagaries of his profession, we believe that the proposals of the Student Council are feasible and, if adopted, would result in a higher and healthier standard of scholarship. There is little doubt that frequent hour examinations which will constitute the most important factor in the determination of grades will result in more regular and systematic work. We do not believe it is unreasonable to suppose that such an innovation will lessen the evils of professional tutoring, for students doing their work in smaller quantities and by degrees would not find it necessary or expedient...