Word: factor
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...University hockey team will meet Princeton for the second time this year in the Arena this evening at 8.15 o'clock. The game will probably be the most important single factor in deciding the year's intercollegiate championship as Princeton is considered to have the best team in the Intercollegiate League, of which Harvard is not a member and a victory for the University would place the team first in the running for the championship. A decisive victory for Princeton would put it undeniably at the head of college teams in the East, since it has already defeated Yale, Dartmouth...
...sport to be encouraged, that the comparatively few chances to see University hockey games in the past have tended to retard its growth; but that an enthusiastic attendance at tonight's game will not only greatly encourage the team at a decisive moment but will be a great factor toward the successful maintenance of an excellent winter sport...
During the winter term there is a natural tendency to grow sluggish and inactive and to become immersed in study to the exclusion of exercise. Hard study is by no means to be discouraged, but the greatest factor in successful mental work is health, and good health is largely dependent on hard, daily exercise. In many colleges it is not uncommon to make some kind of exercise compulsory throughout the year. At Harvard, however, it is generally considered that men have reached that age of discretion when they are able to look after themselves...
...that the excitement of the Yale game has subsided, there has arisen a widespread sentiment that the football rules are more responsible for the dissatisfying result than any other factor. The weakening of the offence by the ten yard rule and the prohibition of all pushing and pulling of the man with the ball has made it very hard for a team to make first down against an opponent its equal in strength when the play is in the middle of the field, and well-nigh impossible when close to the goal-line. For this reason most of the scoring...
...whatever they were, of last Saturday and prepare to receive Yale as she has never been received before in Cambridge. Let us have Union mass meetings, speeches from football graduates, open practices, songs and above all real singing. Let us show the team that if the College is a factor, 1911 will see Yale defeated in the Stadium. In short, let us for a few hours in the next three weeks cease to be individuals and become Harvard men behind a Harvard men behind a Harvard team...