Word: factors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...wishes of many, and that the audience of over one thousand at the last concert is a good testimony of appreciation, the Glee Club sees no reason why the usual number of two concerts might not be increased to three or four another year. There are three factors which enter into such a question: The expense, the time spent by the singers in giving concerts, and the factor of restraint in not overdoing a good thing...
...Such men as L. D. Brayton '28 and F. E. Cummings '30 in the 440, and T. F. Mason '30 in the 220, have a chance to swing the meet to the Crimson by running better than they have to date. Guarnaccia in the discus may also be a factor in carrying the Harvard total over the majority line...
...instance, the strictest necessity a true scientific method is to avoid assuming that a merely coincident factor or condition is a cause. To prove scientificaly that crime is due to endocrinal defects, one would have to show not only that all criminals are defective in that respect, but that all endocrinal defectives are criminals! It may be so, but it is far from proved...
...eliminate the last factor, the ten pig men cooperate. They agree on a pig-selling period. To protect themselves further from each other, they agree that, for each pig he sells, each pig man shall put a certain fee in a common fund. At the end of the pig-selling period, portions of this fund shall be advanced to any of the ten pig men who have had to sell their pigs, at home or in some other village, for less than what all agree upon that year's "fair price" for pigs. The pig men have thus equalized...
...passing on", however, personal acquaintance and personal information become of prime importance to the powers in University Hall. The really thorough investigation of each student's circumstances, and the manner in which each case is handled on its own merits, are refreshing proofs that the much-lauded human factor is not absent from the Dean's office...