Word: vitality
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...have entered the higher institution of learning, seeking the vital elements of American life, can truly interpret the cartoon. For we have seen Uncle Sam, who appropriates billions upon billions of dollars, making the men wear the uniforms of world democracy, and telling them to eat war bread, doughnuts, and molasses cakes in their dormitories. In our classrooms we have been proud to sit among his soldiers, equipped for the full duties of citizenship...
...state universities and those where entrance is by certificate instead of by examination, the proportion of students from the free public schools is very much greater. The result is that these schools are rapidly becoming of much more interest to college men. But they have always been of very vital interest to the nation, because in them the great majority of the people have received whatever schooling has come to them. They have served as the melting-pot for the Americanization of our large foreign population. In the past they have had teachers of a very high grade of intelligence...
...Since the last meeting of the Associated Clubs in Pittsburg, the question of the Harvard Endowment Fund has been crystallizing," stated Mr. Burlingham, "and the share of the clubs in this movement is so vital that the matter will receive our very earnest consideration and our heartiest support...
President Taft, in his message to the University, speaks in this manner: "Indifference and even opposition will be met, but among you college men this must not be." In other words the colleges should lead in the discussion of this vital matter as they have led in such discussions through all history. If thoughtful men of the world are unable to reach any conclusion in regard to it and the whole proposition is lost in the diplomatic shuffle we shall be forced to admit that as our nation was unprepared for was so is it unprepared for peace...
...more they have given out the report that "no definite decision was reached on any point." The University has become quite accustomed to this lack of action on the part of this estimable committee but at the present moment when the need of action on the athletic question is vital, it is beginning to wonder where the value and usefulness of this body lies...