Word: factor
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Michigan University, which enters the meet for the first time this year, should prove a prominent factor in the outcome, as a large number of men of excellent ability will compete. It is expected that the advent of Michigan will materially weaken Cornell's chances for first place, for many of Michigan's best men are entered in the distance runs, where Cornell places her main reliance. At present the chances of victory seem to lie with the University of Pennsylvania, which has entered a large number of very exceptional men who are conceded first places in many...
...young men which are not covered by some organization. It is undeniably a good sign, and the best of it is that each organization has found its place and enough support to warrant its existence. Temporarily, the interest in one activity may dwindle until it is no longer a factor in College life, and it is just this condition which has caught our attention...
...form of increased taxation, which will tend to benefit this privileged class of workers at the expense of the community, whereas a benefit resulting from increased taxation should revert to the public. The higher municipal wage, moreover, increases the hold upon the workman by municipal employers, which is a factor tending towards corruption...
...members of the Union in hearing Major Henry Lee Higginson '55, who is to speak this evening at the annual business meeting. Major Higginson is well known to all members of this University not only as the donor of the Union and of Soldiers Field, but as a strong factor in a great number of ways at Harvard. He has for some time been of great assistance in the maintenance of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, and has long been a leader in every public-spirited movement in Boston...
...social work has been the establishment of classes and boys' clubs, as well as manual-training and cooking classes. These classes teach the children reliance and give them a chance to assert their own individuality, and to express their own ideas, the lack of which is a strong factor in their moral degradation. If the children can be educated by means of beautiful schools and open parks, half the battle will...