Word: vitality
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...peace in the future if the Allies of today, fresh from fighting side by side amidst the most cordial relations, fall out over an affair of so comparatively little magnitude. If the Great Powers become disaffected now for such a reason, what will happen in fifty years, when vital economic interests may be at stake...
...want to shield the professor from our cruel world. Closet scholarship is unavailing in a commercial civilization. The thinker must be in vital touch with the magnificent display of energy precious souls term materialism. But high pay is no means to this end. It creates a barrier where we want a bridge. Salaries higher than a living-wage detach from life: only serious work and sacrifice pay in the end. JOHN BROOKS WHEELWRIGHT...
Through these organizations the opportunities offered here could be made known to every prospective college candidate in the country. Even more vital, however, is personal effort on the part of Harvard graduates. They must remember that all people do not understand the University. They must take pains to show them for what it stands. This is an old time method of arousing interest but it is certain to make Harvard as desirable in the West as it now is here...
Geography has decreed that England must be vitally interested in the destiny of Ireland. Had Germany's efforts succeeded when she attempted to secure Ireland as a base of operations, the final outcome of the war might have been disastrous to civilization. Thus, in settling the problem of self-determination, Parliament must act with consideration both for the Irish people and for the future safety of England. At best it is a difficult solution if both sides are to be satisfied, and in view of the vital questions involved, it would probably be better for the House of Representatives...
...well past the "shower-bath" stage, but the war has necessarily interfered with the progress of singing at Harvard. Now, however, we may hope to see an interest in the singing of good, spirited and vital music that shall make itself felt at every college function, formal or informal, and so, eventually, at every graduate affair. There is no "college" occasion where singing is inappropriate; at football games, at athletic meets, at smokers, in clubs,--everywhere is singing desirable, not the half-hearted, heavy, rhythm less rumble that we have sometimes heard in the Stadium, but a clean-cut, vigorous...