Word: vital
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Supreme Court continued its busy session; handed down a bundle of decisions last week, among which were two of vital and controversial significance...
...Harvard and Princeton together have been among the leaders in the country in the adoption of the preceptorial and tutorial methods of instructions. Agains in their systems of concentration and distribution and in the plan of upperclass study, Princeton and Harvard have blazed the trail in the advance of vital education. The Princeton and Harvard art departments have the closest cooperation in the purchase of books, exchange of professors and in the direction of research; a Princeton man occupies the former chair of Albert Bushnell Hart while a Harvard man occupies Princeton's finest position in mathematical research. Throughout...
...only loophole in the Supreme Court's vital decision is that a militant Senate may strike back against the President's power by passing laws which put the appointment of important officials into other hands. Then the Senate could attach any stipulations for removal which it pleased. For example, it could have the Secretary of the Treasury appoint the Comptroller General, and have the Secretary of Commerce appoint the Interstate Commerce Commission. The Constitution makers were cautiously indefinite about the unknown ground between the powers of the President and Congress. It has always been ground teeming with potential...
Victorianism? It may well be. Yet in these days of diets and derricks and dynamos the pleasure of seeing in the nominal, phenomenal--or what you will an actual Victoria, drawn by an actual, docile Victorian horse is, in no unreal sense, real, vital, lasting...
...education which serves to shorten the period of youth is only a blight. Youth should not be cut off; it should be made to grow. "Scholastic achievements must be made a part of youth, not youth a part of scholastic achievements." Here undoubtedly he has hit upon a vital point. Since youth is so valuable--and so fleeting--will not scholasticism tend to sap its strength? If allowed to overwhelm youth, it will; in the correct proportion, however, larger intellectual fields will be an aid to the preservation of the first part of life...