Word: vital
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...other profession in which such active, accurate thought, so body a command of resources, and so clear a method of exposition are needed. The faculty of late have been devoting their valuable time to the obstruction of athletics: would they mind considering a subject that is of vital importance to the proper education of a class of men hither-to unnoticed...
This difference between a representative and deliberative organization is a vital one, and the committee would be of an entirely different nature, according as it were created with one or the other characteristic. The conference yesterday deliberated carefully, we know, before it decided in this matter. Its decision, therefore, is probably the right...
...four years he has worked without success, every disk breaking on account of the heat which is necessary in the last stage of the making. Finally, last month he telegraphed that he had actually molded a glass without its being broken; and so at last the disk, the one vital organ of a telescope, is completed. The construction of the delicate yet powerful machinery, by which the tube sixty feet long is to be pointed toward any part of the heavens, and kept in motion by clock work, has not yet been commenced. However, the completion of this machinery...
...awaken us to the realization that the universe is not centred around any one place, be it in New York, in Boston, in San Francisco, but it is one vast organization which will continue to exist, even of some of those parts which seem to us the most vital are lopped off. We enjoy some of the benefits of travel, even while anchored in one place. We meet fellows from all parts of the country who differ from each other in ideas, in customs, in manners, and even in dialect. Our country is so large that we are like...
...changed, until now it affords every member a chance to play tennis at a merely nominal fee ; and we should remember that this state of affairs can only be kept up by each member paying his share. No one is shut out from playing now ; every one has a vital interest in the welfare of the association, for every one is part of the association. In former years trouble has been caused because certain men were arbitrarily given rights to courts, while the great mass of players could only avail themselves of courts when the so-called "owners...