Word: factors
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...major factor favoring Davison in his reform was the sober maturity of the veterans who returned from World War I impatient with the Glee Club's rowdiness. Another was the University Chapel Choir, for as Organist, he had control over repertoire. When at Christmas 1913 he introduced some Radcliffe singers into the choir, President Lowell warned him sternly not to do it again, but when the beautifully varied tone of a mixed chorus reappeared the following year, Lowell remained silent and thereafter supported Davison unswervingly...
...love of the choral masterpieces of the 16th and 17th centuries that he instilled in the choir proved the crucial factor in the transformation of the Glee Club. In 1919 a number of choir members independently of him ended the tie with the instrumental clubs and asked him to be director of the new Glee Club. That spring they toured The East and Middle West and were acclaimed the best amateur chorus in America...
...admit Harvard does not have the responsibility to find jobs for graduates," Bigwood remarked, "but there is a factor of moral suasion." He said he thought the University might have "some possible duty in helping people...
...report also discounts the widely held belief that steel settlements are a major factor in pushing the wage-price spiral higher. Steel settlements in the postwar years were a part of the prevailing wage-price push but not necessarily the first cause in each new round. Even though finished-steel-product prices from 1947 to 1959 rose 109% v. only some 30% for consumer prices, Livernash hypothesizes that if steel prices had risen only as much as overall prices, the consumer price jump would have been slowed by a mere 2.4% through...
However, Jaspers' essential confidence does not stem from such cold comforts. He insists that "however minute a quantity the individual may be among the factors that make history, he is a factor." Just as a drop of ink stains a glass of water, so the humblest of men, in the exercise of his free will and choice, affects the course of history. Those who throw up their hands in futility have, in Jaspers' view, succumbed to the Marxist fallacy of regarding history as an irreversible process of doom or salvation. In truth, says Jaspers, the basic process...