Word: factor
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Journalism is regarded by some people as extremely dangerous to the public weal, and by others as the corner-stone of literature. Napoleon said that he feared three newspapers more than 100,000 soldiers, and Wendell Phillips and others have expressed opinions that the newspaper is a tremendous factor in a country, because it is the mouth-piece of public sentiment...
...Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire." This work is one of the greatest historical works written, and has placed Gibbon with Hume and Robertson at the head of English historians. Gibbon's idea was that history, besides the necessary technicalities, should be literature, and this was a great factor in his success...
...strong argument in itself for intercollegiate athletics), and that by more general participation the physical vigor of the whole student body will be increased. The Daily Princetonian, voicing the Princeton undergraduate sentiment, says: "We do not believe intercollegiate contests to be harmful, but rather a most beneficial and necessary factor of college life. They are essential to the welfare of a college community. But they have one serious defect in that they are not far reaching enough. . . . Our suggestion is that all the intracollege athletic contests and series be put on a firmer, more businesslike basis...
...class of 1911 has reached that important date in its career of the Freshman dinner, an institution which has been for years an essential factor in every Freshman class. There can be no question of the importance of the dinner in providing an admirable opportunity to assemble a large number of the class away from all upperclassmen and to encourage the feeling that the class by and large is at least one of the logical units of undergraduate life, and pre-eminently so in Freshman year. The underlying principle of class dinners is that every man in the class should...
...orderly manner, the rules of the caucus being enforced with marked rigidity. Supporters of the different candidates did much to get voters out to help their cause and make the caucus more real and interesting. The seriousness and earnestness with which the whole affair was managed was a strong factor contributing toward its success...