Word: vitality
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Aside from this, the Conference provides an excellent means of discussing subjects of vital college interest. Much has been said about establishing the University on a peace time footing and organizing activities on a more sensible basis than theretofore. A great deal can by done to realize this reorganization, by talking over ideas which have been put into practice at other universities. The meetings present an excellent opportunity to exchange opinions, by bringing together students from on parts of the country...
...introduction of anything more compulsory is, if possible, to be avoided. Such a course, however, under the Departments of History, Government, and Economics could not fall to be of immense value. College instruction is prone to be too theoretical, but the practical teaching of so vital a subject would fill a great need of the undergraduate. The well-known ability of the staffs of the departments of Government, History and Economics as well as the experience in actual problems which many of them gained during the present war would be certain to make the course popular. The University should...
...essential foundations of the social order. It is difficult to see how Boston can retain its position as the modern Athens if youths of such tender age are to regard the most characteristic institution of Boston culture as food for mirth. A Senate investigation into Harvard teaching is of vital importance unless the basis of modern Boston is to pass away unnoticed...
Miss Lee's keen and vigorous paper on Tolstoi's "What Shall We Do Then?" is of vital interest. She shows how Tolstoi unerringly exposes the root of the problem of poverty. Prince and pauper are brothers under their skins. "The social problem is the individual problem, and individual reform is the only means of social regeneration...
...individual athletes have developed steadily throughout the season, there has been but little advance made in arousing that element most necessary to success in all sports, and so difficult to attain in the case of track: team spirit. In this affair of morale, the training table is fully as vital as to crew or baseball...