Word: potent
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...length in these columns. Lack of interest among the undergraduates and the players, the character of the game itself, the poor facilities at the Hemenway Gymnasium, and the continued unsuccess of the University teams were the leading reasons. The last will undoubtedly be considered by many as the most potent. Although perhaps there would have been no abolition if Harvard had continually won the intercollegiate championship, the failure to win was due to the lack of support which was the primary cause of the game's forced withdrawal. There was no reason to believe that any great interest would...
...lessen the expense of sending a dual team abroad, as representatives of Harvard and Yale will undoubtedly be chosen to form part of the American team. A portion of the funds, moreover, which were collected for the last international contest are still unused, and this fact will be a potent influence in completing the arrangements...
...previous lectures Mr. Mallock refuted the argument of popular socialism, which states that the many are omnipotent and the few of little or no importance. Although fully realizing the great powers of the majority in many instances, he showed that the powers of the minority were equally potent. This doctrine is proved in legislation, for the majority cannot decide to have things which the minority will not have. Hence the powers of the many are limited to a large extent, and legislation is perforce confined to certain channels...
...closing, Mr. McCall said that he believed that Harvard through its scholars had sent forth the most potent single force in the country. This quiet presentation of academic distinctions, he said, is far better than the acclaim of forty thousand people in the Stadium. There is soon to be a reaction in the world, and it will become popular to be a scholar. And this is right, for nothing in the world is more useful to one's country than scholarship...
Friedrich Althoff, "Absent through illness, but expressly represented today by Professor Struve, director of the Prussian universities; modest, austere, untiring, sagacious, resolute, the most potent personage in German higher education; the promoter of the exchange of professors between German and American universities...