Word: vital
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...lecture by Horace Fletcher, on "Vital Economics," announced for tomorrow, will be delivered in the Union on the evening of November...
...task on which President Lowell officially enters today is to be of vital interest to Harvard, and through Harvard to the educational world. American colleges and universities are in the swing of a great movement which is bringing them increase in numbers, in wealth, and in power. It is given to the president of this University to be one of those who direct this movement, and to guide it wisely is a work than which none is more important...
Even persons who do not share this view of a professional aim have often urged that in order to save college education in the conditions that confront us we must reduce its length. May we not feel that the most vital measure for saving the college is not to shorten its duration, but to ensure that it shall be worth saving? Institutions are rarely murdered; they meet their end by suicide. They are not strangled by their natural environment while vigorous: they die because they have outlived their usefulness, or fail to do the work that the world wants done...
...speaking of the training of the student, or the equipment of the graduate, we are prone to think of the knowledge acquired; but are we not inclined to lay too much stress upon knowledge alone? Taken by itself it is a part, and not the most vital part, of education. Surely the essence of a liberal education consists in an attitude of mind, a familiarity with methods of thought, an ability to use information, rather than a memory stocked with facts, however valuable such a storehouse may be. In his farewell address to the alumni of Dartmouth President Tucker remarked...
October 19.--Horace Fletcher, M. A., on "Vital Economics." Illustrated...