Word: vital
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...difficult undertaking depended the future rank of Harvard as a seat of learning. At this juncture Mr. Winsor took charge of the Library with the settled purpose of making it a help and a spur to instructors and to students in their daily work, and a source of vital influence in University life. The extension of the Library in 1876 and the accession of some important funds strengthened his hands at the outset. His rules of administration, his plans for the remodeling of Gore Hall in 1895, and those for a great future extension, were all studied in the light...
There is perhaps no immediate question of organization more vital to the athletic interests of the University than the permanent establishment of the Weld Boat Club on a firm financial basis. The training school is of undoubted value, and has in the last two years certainly proved its right to rank as a 'Varsity institution...
...administration of both the Boston Public Library and the Harvard College Library has had its effect on libraries throughout the country. The Public Library he brought into vital contact with the people to a degree not achieved before and in a way which has stimulated other libraries. In the College Library the influence of his liberal administration has been not less important to the library and to college education. His readiness to meet the wants of the Faculty, and to administer the library in the interest of the elective system fostered a change in the methods of study...
...project. But Stevenson is no-where held in greater admiration or affection than in America, and it seems certain than many of his American readers would be glad of an opportunity to take part in this tribute to his memory. Many of them have felt through his books the vital and stimulating personality that made him one of the most attractive figures in recent English literature; and the idea of this memorial has appealed to them with an unusual force...
...influence more or less beneficial to students possessing social position and means than to those who possess neither. In other words, it appeals to all sorts of students and inasmuch as the club does this is its influence a broadening one and of the most vital use to the university...