Word: factors
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Last evening in Sever 11, Mr. Edward Atkinson delivered a very interesting lecture, under the auspices of the Finance Club, on "Fire as a Factor in our National Taxation." The lecturer began by describing the difference between the stock system of insurance and the mutual system, showing clearly the advantages derived from the latter. In fact the mutual companies are so manifestly superior that they are fast supplanting the stock companies...
Politics should enter more largely into the American college curriculum. It is plain that in this way alone can the standard of politics in this country be raised. The tendency of modern life is every day running towards specialization, and this tendency will undoubtedly soon be a factor in political life. In England and Germany men fit themselves specially for politics, just as others do for medicine and law. Many schools have been founded specially to prepare for the civil service examinations. The introduction of civil service reform in this country will soon necessitate such special preparation here. The universities...
...Edward Atkinson lectures in Sever 11 at 7.30 P. M. today on "Fire as a Factor in our National Taxation," with diagrams illustrating the method of combustible architecture...
Harvard Finance Club. "Fire as a Factor in the National Taxation." Mr. Edward Atkinson. Sever...
...tobacco. The specific cause for the existence of the desire of the human system for some substance of a narcotic nature, said Dr. Sargent, cannot be stated. It is sufficient to say that from time memorial it has existed, and has been recognized as a factor in the organization of the system. The means taken to gratify this desire are not universally the same but vary in different countries. But, unquestionably, tobacco is the most prominent of the narcotic substances and is the most generally used, especially with the civilized world. A curious fact in regard to tobacco is that...