Word: vital
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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After forty years of untiring service in a field of vital importance, the promotion of health and strength in thousands of students, Dr. Sargent announces his intention to retire from the active direction of the Hemenway Gymnasium. It is easy to understand Dr. Sargent's desire to be relieved after a lifetime of devoted work, but it is difficult to be reconciled to his going. To every student who has come in contact with him, Dr. Sargent is as real and genial a friend as he is a helpful physical advisor. Outside the limits of Cambridge Dr. Sargent is almost...
...other courses to be omitted are 21 and 20d. There are no changes in the Departments of Botany and Zoology. Palaentology 1 and 2 will be withdrawn and instead will be offered 1hf and 2hf. A new course under Hygiene and Sanitation has been added,--4hf, on Vital Statistics, by Professor Whipple and Mr. Fair. In the Geology Department a course on Mining Geology under Professor H. L. Smyth has been announced and in the Geography Department Eng. Sci. 4a hf on Surveying, Mapping, and Map-reading has been added. In this last department also, course 19hf has been...
This evening a chance will be offered to members of the University to show their practical interest in a campaign which has a vital bearing on the development and future welfare of the country. The Social Service Committee of Phillips Brooks House will hold a dinner at 6.30 in the Trophy Room of the Union, with the special purpose of enlisting undergraduate support of a policy of the "Americanization" of the foreign-born and foreign-bred populations in and around Greater Boston...
...their belief was the first, they were playing with fire, since the problem is too great and too vital to be a basis for "sport." In the second case their action takes away what is at present the only weapon--the strike--with which the employees of the telephone company can obtain redress for wrong or indeed even attention to their requests at Washington. That emergency calls should be handled is desirable, but let the government provide such service without the aid of undergraduates. Of those students who conscientiously believed the strike to be wrong, there can be no criticism...
Under the present system there is no close relationship between instructor and student. A distinct advance could be made by extending the tutorial system now employed in the Division of History, Government and Economics to other departments. But this system should be made for more real and vital; it should be an essential part of the college course, rather than a forgotten fortnightly chore. This would enable the student to come into closer contact with the teacher, who could discuss with him subjects of immediate interest and link them up with his academic work. The tutor could also suggest...