Word: vital
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...communication printed below starts the ball rolling for some definite plan of reorganization of the Union. The solution of this vital problem rests primarily on the heads of the undergraduates. No matter what plan is devised it is essential to have complete co-operation for it to succeed...
...population increased the great coal and mineral resources of Europe were discovered, and industrial life began to develop. Then the economic geography became of vital importance to each nation. Political boundary lines have been shifted to include special resources. Later, when greater supplies of raw material were needed at the manufacturing plants and new markets desired, the geography of the world became vital to the life of the nations in western Europe. A period of colonization followed, until almost all the lands of the world have been taken. The nations of western Europe have been most active in this work...
...what value is it in our daily college life? Compulsory membership, as the writer pointed out would solve the financial troubles, but would not give the popularity which is essential if the Union is to live. By some means we must once again make the Union a vital factor in University life...
...something started, to establish the many new boundaries according to the will of the peoples in question, to put the German people to work to pay off some of the debts they owe, those are the vital interests of the moment. Bankruptcy is facing England, France, and Italy. The delay of the peace terms means the prolonged mobilization of their military and naval forces, and that means just so much additional expense. Under such conditions, it is natural to blame the other fellow with the result that the spirit of friendly co-operation may be lost...
...friends than from its enemies. Those who are ready with cut and dried schemes of international organization, in which Costa Rica and England are equally represented, or in which the International Army drills constantly at the Hague, understand neither the spirit nor the necessity of the time. The vital thing, at the moment, is to train men, and particularly statesmen, to the realization that conference is a better method than war for the settlement of disputes. International Government is bound to grow slowly and to encounter every degree of hesitation and scepticism. The League of Nations at the present time...