Word: factor
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Union has now completed the sixth and most successful year of its history, and is established on a practical working basis. Through the efficient and untiring efforts of this year's Governing Board the Union has become an active and indispensable factor in the life of the University. The increasing usefulness of the club has been due not so much to innovations as to improvements in departments already established...
...Harvard graduates and undergraduates than any number of victories in preliminary games. We do not mean that a defeat today will detract from the credit which the team has earned in previous games; but it cannot be denied that the final series is the most important factor in determining whether the season shall be considered successful or not. We are confident that our team at its best is a better team than any Yale can place on the field, and we are equally confident that the Harvard team will play its pluckiest and best game today. We believe it will...
There is little need to urge the fitness of the Union for such a memorial. It is firmly established as an important factor in undergraduate life. There is less need to urge a hearty response to any call for subscriptions which may be made. Every man in the University should be glad to do his small part toward bringing future classes into closer touch with the memory of a man who gave to Harvard the best years of a singularly valuable life, and who won the love as well as the respect of countless undergraduates...
...Harvard and Jackson of Cornell, who together hold the intercollegiate record, to qualify in the pole-vault was one of the most unexpected events of the day. Garrels of Michigan was easily the individual star of the day, as he qualified in three events and should be a strong factor in all of these today...
...western colleges, will be represented for the first time, and an opportunity will thus be afforded for comparing the East and West in this branch of athletics. Although Michigan has been entered in recent Pennsylvania carnivals, these came too early in the season to afford a fair comparison. Another factor which renders this meet of more than ordinary interest is the uncertainty of the outcome. There are several claimants for first place, but it is certain that the victory will not be an easy one. While Harvard is not generally considered to be in the first rank, it may well...