Word: vital
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Although understandable, the psychology behind the love of the stupendous would seem to deserve amused tolerance rather than active championship. The estimate of the Census Bureau which places Boston eighth among American cities, rather than seventh as in 1920, appears to be no vital calamity. Yet the Boston Evening Transcript editorially considers this demotion sufficient reason for uniting the city and its suburbs into a multiple municipality. The smoky sections of Somerville, the placid regions of Newton, the bustling parts of Cambridge, all would be taken under the maternal, Bostonian wing to swell the statistics of population...
...elusive to be land, the top of the world may not be exempt from a republican tariff. Although these questions agitate men who have probably never seen an iceberg, the polar bears may no doubt be permitted a yawn. That a sliding scale of import duties can have a vital effect on denizens of the slippery north seems unlikely. Even the Eskimos do not appear to be lobbying in congressional haunts...
Products of a new spirit of questioning rampant in undergraduate life, the journals of opinion strike an alien note, jarring to deans and presidents. Besides purveying news items they provoke student opinion on vital subjects and jealously guard the undergraduate interests...
What Yale fears is not that there be too little chance for that acquaintanceship on the perpendicular plane which the Committee believes is a vital need at Harvard but rather the loss of what has been called "Yale solidarity". With numbers forcing the chapel regulations to undergo a decided change at Yale the Alumni Weekly believes that the chance for such solidarity is departing Theater is nothing except the fraternity system, if one interprets the Weekly correctly, to blind the college together. So they suggest a further development of that system...
...Yale is to continue Yale she must have her "social solidarity", if Harvard is to continue Harvard she must have her best traditions in full flourish. Therefore these suggestions from people interested in the future of their universities must not be taken with a grain of salt. They are vital and very necessary...