Word: factors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Hoover v. Warren. Potent U. S. pacifist groups, ably spokesmanned by President Nicholas Murray Butler of Columbia University, appear to have been a decisive factor in reversing the attitude of Monsignor Ladeuze. He was given aid and comfort in his new stand, a month ago, by U. S. Candidate for President Herbert Hoover, who cabled: "The University of Louvain owns the new library and has undeniable jurisdiction connected with inscription and memorials. . . . Representing the donor of the larger share of funds employed in building library, I suggest you obtain immediate settlement present controversy on lines which will eliminate war bitterness...
...that even our most indubitably gifted moderns have so little passionate conviction about the things that they want to paint, or the necessity for painting them. "The vitality of any art, even in its most formal and purely aesthetic aspect, depends on some theme which is a living factor in the existence of a whole people and which colors their emotions and motivates their lives. . . . "To say that pictures need not, or should not, tell a story is to state the problem falsely. In all great epochs of art, the painter's subject was already a story with which...
Smith's prime claim to candidacy is his claim that he could carry his own New York, which has 45 votes. So that is the next factor to add. The Solid South plus New York would make 159 votes...
...problem of undergraduate clubs, a moving one two years ago when the Student Council considered the problem, has since diminished in importance. Harvard club growth has been in the direction of lessening the importance of the club as a social factor. The club that is little more than a dining place has come into being. The rising tide of study, symbolized in such ninth wave as the interest in the English literature contest and the success of the Reading Period, has overwhelmed the playboy except in that brief period between September and October of the Freshman year and club life...
...collectionists represented by the Union Congress many are young housewives, under 30, and these will soon be enabled to vote for the first time, by the confidently expected passage of the Equal Franchise ("Votes For Flappers") Bill (TIME, June 4, et ante). Collective buying thus looms as an appreciable factor in moulding the new Flapper Electorate...