Word: vital
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...benefactions of people dead and living filled with far sighted generosity you have been trained, not only for your own benefit, but also for service to the country where you have been born. There lies the most vital point. John Harvard, and the benefactors who followed him, whose example has been followed in a host of other colleges, were inspired by a desire to help their own community, but they had no conception of the vast area over which the seed they nourished would bear fruit. When the earlier colleges were planted the small settlements on the Atlantic sea-board...
...take this means of bringing what I consider a most vital matter of University policy before the proper authorities and the student body...
...announced yesterday, each carrying a salary of $1200, will be available at the new University School of Public Health for the year 1922-23. These fellowships will be for award to those qualified to take up work in any of the medical sciences bearing upon public health, in vital statistics, or in the more directly practical divisions of public health work. Applications must be received by August 1 by the Secretary of the School...
...seems to me to be coming between Youth and their Betters; by Youth meaning of course you, and by your Betters us. I want you to take up this position-that Youth have for too long left exclusively in our hands the decisions in national matters that are more vital to them than...
...thirty-six years that have elapsed, these college summer conferences have multiplied until last year 166 conferences were held throughtout the world with a total attendance of 31, 311. What was a venture of faith on the part of Dwight L. Moody in 1886 is now so vital a part of the Christian experience of the world that the elimination of any of these conferences is practically unthinkable. The tendency is all in the other direction. The reasons are not difficult to discover. They become quite apparent as one searches. The setting, the program and the leadership of a conference...