Word: vital
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Committee reports its endeavor to assist the Harvard Fund in every way, saying that it believes the Fund to be "not only a source of free income but a very vital link between the University and its former students...
...honorary roll of prominent undergraduates, the efficiency of which is subjugated to its glory. If adopted at Princeton and enforced with the rigidity which in its present form it seems to demand, the system will cease to be only symbolical of student cooperation and will be in reality a vital factor in the daily life of the college. The instigators of the project at Princeton appear to be firmly convinced that student government has won its spurs by a period of restrained and sub-servient respect and that it is now prepared to partake in active guidance. If their belief...
Unemployment is still the most vital and vexing problem which confronts the British Government. But, to Premier Baldwin came reassuring statistics last week, telling that Britons unemployed now number only 998,300-a decrease of 23,428 within the previous week, and 577,599 within the past twelve month...
...more truth than he imagines when he says that "university courses should be lengthened to eight years for the increasing number of students who want to matriculate in jazz". With no satirical intention he has bequeathed his innocent journalistic palaver with an ironic note. His plea is for more vital trombonists: but he incidentally lays bare the anatomy of jazz...
...asked "not for mercy, but for justice," not for pardon but for a public investigation to "set us free." Reviewing the trial, it listed a long series of incidents to show prejudice on the part of Trial Judge Thayer. Its most vital new evidence came in the attached affidavits...