Word: vital
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...undergraduate department of Columbia has not progressed in proportion to the School of Mines and the School of Law, nor proportionately to the advances made by the undergraduate departments at Harvard and Yale. One reason given for this is that at Columbia the essence of college life, such a vital factor of undergraduate existence elsewhere, is entirely lacking. But this can hardly explain the almost stationary position which the college department of Columbia has now held for the past ten years. With such a city as New York to draw from, the number of students in the college should have...
...part of the men is absolutely inexcusable. When the faculty is making an earnest effort to get at the root of the athletic question, the least that men can do is to co-operate with it fully and frankly. We think there are few students for whom this vital question does not have some interest; if there are any for whom it has none, shame for the fact ought to make them conceal it. Answers are still wanting from two hundred men. If they cannot take the trouble to reply to the questions in the circular, the work...
What is most noticeable in reading the editorials and the "Topics of the Day," is the number of questions of vital interest to the college touched upon...
...sold in the cheapest market, by all means let us have free trade that our wages may fall to the level of those received by the European. But in a country where the government is in the hands of the people, no such attitude is possible. It is of vital importance to the life of the Repulic that any device be used to raise wages. This may be accomplished by what Clay calls "the American system," yet it is proposed to abolish this, and thus expose the American workingman to the competition of the pauper labor of Europe...
...earnest work. Should the self-denial undergone by these men be set aside as of secondary importance? Who is to judge-a few individuals or the college at large? The prize offered to stir the athlete is not pleasure-it is honor; it is the satisfaction of being a vital part of a victorious team, and its attendant advantages...