Word: vital
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...recent flurry of articles and letters regarding the NROTC loyalty oath, one vital point seems to have been overlooked. The NROTC, as well as being a part of the Harvard curriculum, is essentially a Navy Organization. To enter the program, one must meet certain scholastic and physical requirements, and to be commissioned, one must meet other requirements during four years of College. The Navy sets these standards so that it can be sure all its Midshipmen are of a certain calibre...
Fraser's verdict: "These [incidents] are invasions of sovereignty at the most vital of all levels, the protection of the citizen...
...this issue, Bush comments, New Yorker-style, on Archibald MacLeish and the Brattle Players with humor and imagination. His columns will be something to look for in future issues. the new department could and should supplant the self-conscious, posturing "Notes from 40 Bow Street" column, which provides vital data about the contributors, such as that they are enrolled in an advanced composition course, or that they are "currently at work on a novel...
...Daily Princetonian, Dean Godolphin, and an estimated 75 percent of the college finds the omission of 10 percent of the student body "unfair and impossible"-even more so in a system admittedly vital to the social life of a Princeton...
...most vital link in the chain of command is the roof telephone. Since the coaches on the field can get only a very general idea of what's going right or wrong, backfield coach Steve Sebo is posted in the press box, with a direct wire leading to the bench...