Word: vital
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...most important race they can row. With Columbia, Cornell, and other colleges we have no quarrel, and the losing or winning of a race with them is a matter of almost perfect indifference to this University at least; with Yale, on the contrary, our yearly contest is of vital interest. When the R. A. A. C. was still alive, the question each year was not, "Who won?" but "Did we beat Yale...
...month from now the Class Day elections probably will take place, and the offices of class marshals - the acme of a college man's social ambition - will be offered to the fortunate individuals whom the Senior class, as a body, consider worthy of the honor. Happily no vital issues are at stake in these elections, and the class is not cut up into political parties. So we trust the formation of caucuses and the packing of meetings will not be deemed necessary to secure a fair election. If such a class as '79, which has been characterized by the smoothness...
...former, or contempt for that of the latter. Ossip, finally, is wrong when he says that we "merely" say "popularity is the result of insincerity." Our words were : "Popularity may result legitimately from truthfulness, or illegitimately from insincerity." But let us not among these subordinate blunders forget the vital question...
...sorry politician. Yet if more Harvard students should read the daily newspaper carefully, intelligently, and with a view to becoming acquainted with the events and the leading men of to-day, an increased interest in public affairs would result; and one means to retrieve the vital mistake, as President Eliot calls it, Harvard has made in not sending more men into politics would be found...
Much was hoped for from the club crews in the way of bringing to notice and training a supply of oarsmen from which to select candidates for the University, and on this subject much has been written; but, strangely enough, the most vital point has been entirely neglected, viz. the proper coaching of the men in the club crews. They have been taught to row in such bad form and on such wrong principles that, on becoming candidates for the University, they are actually at a disadvantage when compared with the tyros. To obviate this, the captain of the University...