Word: factors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that there exists a dissatisfaction, partially chronic but entirely justified, as to the present status of Education at Harvard. The teaching staff, remembering its own sacrifices for an education, is likely to regard the absence of the will to learn on the part of the undergraduate as the fundamental factor vitiating an otherwise fairly efficient and adaptable educational system. On the other hand the average undergraduate brought face to face with a great machinery that tends to impose a certain orthodoxy upon his fields of mental activity, so classify and label him, to assign a pigeon-hole as the area...
...evident tendency on the part of Secretary Mellon (who, incidentally, is Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board) to look askance at the large sums of money loaned hy banks on stocks and bonds, such a fall in share prices is not fundamentally surprising. There has been the further factor of evident over production in many basic industries to give pause to undue optimism...
Today will be absolutely the last day for subscriptions and the final statements of all the collectors must be made to the committee by tonight. The committee still feels that the final effort today will be the determining factor in the result of the drive and will put the budget up to the desired goal. It will hold its regular office hours in the Varsity Club from 6 to 12 o'clock this evening to receive last minute individual contributions...
...Christian Church." Doubtless the speaker was impelled by the best motives in making this sweeping and very vague statement, and therefore we are sure that lie will not object if we take him seriously, for Harvard, though nowadays surrounded by institutions whose competitions it welcomes, is an outstanding factor in the national life. Were this not done, Harvard might be left in a very parlous condition; wept over as unregenerate by Cardinal O'Connell a short time ago, it now receives lusty buffets at the hands of one whom we take to be not in entire agreement on other matters...
...Carrel said, "Instead of merely in increasing the number of human beings, we could increase their quality. The progress of medicinal understood in this manner, would be the most important factor in the development of civilization...