Word: factors
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Last night the dinner given in honor of the team that beat Yale and of the second eleven which proved such an important factor in that defeat, took place. At quarter before 8 o'clock the great dining room of the RevereHouse, decorated with Harvard banners, was filled with three hundred men waiting for the team to come in. The band played Fair Harvard as Neal Rantoul '92 escorted Captain Cumnock to his seat of honor on the right of the president of the dinner, Moses Williams, Jr., '91. The team followed and took seats at the head...
...evening in Boston, was a fitting celebration of the founding of the society. The Signet Society, was started in 1870 by a group of prominent members of the senior class, its first president being Charles J. Bonaparte, Esq., now of Baltimore. Since then it has continually been an important factor in undergraduate life. Today, as the Junior Literary Society, it is the goal of many men's desires, not only for the sake of its present pleasures but on account of the link which it forms through life between the alumni and undergraduate members. The dinner last night was just...
...Cambridge there is probably more suggestion of old customs than in any other European university. No important measure affecting the university is passed there without the assent of the alumni. The proctor, also, is an important factor in British universities and exercises much more authority than in American colleges. He usually is accompanied in his rounds by two men of athletic accomplishments, notably that of running. If he accosts a man and desires an explanation of some offense the student may give him his name and address and appear before him the next morning and pay a small fine...
...justifiable. Whether outsiders sneer or not is a matter of no consequence. If Harvard has chosen the right course it is her duty to pursue it. What, then, are the fundamental facts in the matter? Just these: In the past Harvard's athletics have been too important a factor in her life. The same, to be sure, is true of other colleges, but it is Harvard which we are considering now. Just as soon as men begin to come to any college exclusively for athletics, just so soon is it clear that athletics have assumed too prominent a place...