Word: vital
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...wife. War. Served all four years as interpreter to a British artillery regiment. Then the great, unexpected appointment as Chief Interpreter to the Paris Peace Conference, the chance of a lifetime which turned a brittle, impecunious professor into the confidant of the Big Three at their most secret and vital meetings. Perhaps M. Camerlynck was even present on that celebrated evening when Georges Clémenceau and David Lloyd George are supposed to have gotten Woodrow Wilson convivially stimulated,, but if so the little Fleming never told. When asked in his later years: "Why don't you write your...
Objections to the Lampoon's satire are mainly that it is in poor taste, Quite possibly. But what is at issue here is something more vital than any question of taste; more vital than the respect unquestionably due Mr. Harkness for his munificent gift; more vital even than the "House Plan" of instruction. What is at issue here is the right of undergraduates to think for themselves, and to criticize the educational experiments of which they themselves are to be the subject matter. Their strictures may be ridiculously conservative. Undergraduate opinion usually is. But independent thinking must begin somewhere...
...more importance in the specific case of Hedda Gabler, her figure has no voluptuousness to soften the cruelty of the character. She can wear with grace the smock-like robe pre scribed by Ibsen, Never without a cigaret, the Le Galliénne Hedda is bored but thinly vital as though blood of ice were quickening her movements, thoughts, words...
...time the Protest of the Masses Number was in contemplation that all was not right in the little world about him. For months on end he had heard the faint, polite voice of the Harvard CRIMSON weakly trying to reason things out. But the CRIMSON left so many vital things unsaid...
While denunciation of the House Plan may be the most evident point of the Lampoon's current attack, it is by no means the only, nor the most essential one. Far more vital to the future educational efficiency of Harvard is the course its teaching policies are to follow. The Lampoon has found in present conditions of instruction material for a twofold protest. On the one hand it expresses strong disapproval of the type of training demanded by such examinations as that given at mid-years in English 32, and on the other it decries the great intercollegiate race...