Word: factor
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...days before the opening of the second half-year many men will have occasion to select new courses from the many that are about to begin. To these men, and especially to Seniors and others who are finishing their undergraduate course, we would suggest as a factor in all choices the personality and reputation of the instructors. Many men have gone through Harvard, adhering to a rigid schedule of courses or to a crooked line of least resistance determined by snap courses, and have failed altogether to avail themselves of the presence here of some of the most distinguished scholars...
Again, by cutting down the number of entrance subjects required, it should be possible to reduce the average age of entrance to the College. This is a factor which would aid materially in the influence and worth of the Freshman dormitory system, and is a point not to be overlooked...
...West Point's football schedule for next season carries a deep significance. It means that the United States Military Academy has decided to take its usual place on the football field this autumn, and in a larger sense, that football has come to be considered too important a factor in university life to be consigned to the past without mature consideration and stronger arguments than are now advanced...
...Shields prefaced his talk on snow slides with a lengthy treatment of the economic value of the game birds to agriculture. Contrary to the common belief, the owls and hawks so generally detested by farmers are a great factor in the destruction of insects harmful to crops. Even the quail, one of the most valued game birds of this section, would do much toward saving the great loss from insects, if it were adequately protected from extermination. The lecturer gave a vivid illustration of the good done by such common birds as the kingbird by stating that although the latter...
...SOUTHWORTH LECTURES IN ANDOVER THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY. "The Church as a Factor in Rural Economy." VI. Some Lantern Slides illustrative of Rural Life and Work in Many Lands. Professor Carver. Semitic Museum...