Word: vital
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Irwin Ross's leading article in the current number of the "Harvard Progressive" is one of greatest interest to the Harvard community. Discussing "The Strange Case of the Assistant Professors," he gives vigorous expression to a student view of the vital changes being wrought by the administrative appointment policy. This view, which has found similar expression in other student publications, can hardly be better put than in Mr. Ross's own words: "Undergraduates are naturally concerned with the threat to Harvard education, rather than with the more remote issues of faculty security and academic democracy. We are disturbed...
...reminded that "when a department makes recommendations to the Dean on matters of personnel it is not acting as a faculty committee but as an informal group to whom the administration has turned for advice." At the same time the majority of them believe Harvard College to be the vital core of Harvard University and accordingly feel a primary responsibility to the undergraduate body. Of necessity many are now deeply troubled on this score...
...convoyed belligerent ship-that the U. S. Government could take no responsibility for their safety. Behind these gathering events, crowding arguments, confusing maneuvers that made up the Great Debate on U. S. neutrality, every U. S. citizen last week could feel, if he could not see, the vital, life-&-death issue: peace or war. To the great oratorical fugue about to start in the Capitol, never had there been a more unanimously attentive audience. The man who will play the counterpoint in that fugue, his eyebrows now white with time, sat brooding in his hideaway, now and then napping...
...Nitrogen is present in all proteins. Heavy nitrogen atoms can be distinguished from the common kind by mass spectrographic means, but in protein reactions they run along with their lighter fellows, and so serve as "tagged atoms" or chemical spies to show where the nitrogen goes. Carbon is a vital ingredient of all living substance, and by using heavy carbon atoms as tracers Dr. Urey expects physiologists to find out much more about carbon metabolism than is now known...
...less confusing than Harvard geography is the tumult of meetings, buildings, people, and "vital" decisions confronting an entering class. The well-meaning patronizing of sophomores, the nebulous advice of juniors, and the aloof disconcern of seniors seldom bring much order out of the chaos. The college might almost as well hire a set of carollers to wander about the Yard singing a medley of "Hold Tight" and "God Rest You Merry Gentlemen...