Word: factor
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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SEMINARY OF ECONOMICS. "Public Opinion as Factor in Industrial Consolidation," Mr. V. Custis. University...
Mohammedanism was still another factor responsible for the rupture of the Mediterranean empire. The people of Asia hated emperors who were always trying to maintain the balance between the Orient and the Occident; they hated Christianity because they had a horror of the metaphysical Trinity as being an inhuman conception...
...predicts and inevitable deficit, in spite of considerable economics, in the current fiscal year. All savings in salaries, he points out, have been made in the annual appointments, the salaries of professors and other permanent officers having been maintained. To meet the demands of the present situation, a large factor in which is the falling in the rate of interest of funds from 7.82 percent, in 1871-72 to 4.77 percent, in 1903-04 and the consequently greater dependence of the University on students' fees, in spite of the enormous growth of the invested funds, President Eliot names...
...last night, illustrates how pleasant and how potent in the cause of good fellowship Union nights of the same kind, open to all its members, would be. It seems to me that such night would not only add to the popularity of the club, but would be an important factor in the promotion of College spirit. If a man could drop into the Union during the evening and be sure of seeing old friends and making new ones, if he could sit with them around a table and smoke and sing, I do not think I exaggerate when...
...body politic is to be strong the individuals composing it must be correspondingly strong. The requisites for the successful discharge of the duty of citizenship are four--intelligence, common sense, honesty, and courage,--and a man who possesses all of these is certain to be a factor for good in the community, rather than for evil. The same qualifications make the successful officeholder, for he is simply a trustee for the individuals who have elected him. Every man in public life must enter upon his official career with the sole purpose of doing the duties imposed upon...