Word: vital
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...large that many deficiencies in treatment are inevitable. In the first place, how can we tell what the health of a given body of men may be? Only, strangely enough, by the death rate. Fifty years ago in England, competent officers were appointed in every parish to collect its vital statistics, and now the government publishes yearly a volume of about nine hundred pages, so accurately compiled that all inferences about the health of the modern world are based upon it. In Massachusetts the same system has been adopted and an excellent yearly report is now published. The national census...
...keep up their connection with the college until the end of the year-at least they will be subjected to the greatest pressure toward this end. As to the actual intentions of some of Princeton's players, however, the faculty may well be mistaken, since their information on the vital point in question from their very position is almost sure to be unreliable. However that may be, even they, we believe, would find it difficult to explain the coming of George and Cash at the eleventh hour on any other ground than the supposition that they entered college...
...less than a complete revolution in the church and in society. Two more pamphlets published in the same year entitled "The Babylonian Captivity," and "The Liberty of the Christian Man" gave proof of Luther's wonderful productivity. In these three works of 1520 were set forth what is truly vital and permanent in Luther's doctrine. But the people of Germany were not ready for the new teaching, and Luther himself seeing the confusion he had wrought among them, and terrified at the consequences of the doctrine of the Anabaptists and others, who claimed like himself to have cast aside...
...freshman class, and a communication on the mutilation of library books, both of which are well worth reading, The former deserves the attention and reflection not only of those to whom it is addressed, but of every other man in college, treating as it does of a matter of vital importance in college life. Such matters are not generally discussed in the college press but a little plain, sober talk like this, by a man evidently in earnest, and professedly experienced, is quite timely and appropriate...
...generation, and it would be hard to estimate the number of men in the prime of life whose death is attributed by the verdict of the physician to what is commonly called overwork-which means the use of the mental faculties at the expense of the whole vital system. There is no time in a man's life when he can let up from this care for the body. We are told to care for our souls but he who cares for his soul and neglects his body, overlooks the prime conditions of soul service. The man who enters...