Word: vital
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...pleasant story, for pitiful stories are not pleasant stories. And the "Memoirs of a Midget" is very and sincerely pitiful. No one has written the life of Zip the "What Is It" to whom Barnum gave fame. Dickens gave a name, and the public gave the vital interest of its perpetual indecorum. But now that Zip is dead and the fellowship of freaks takes on the vestments of usual mourning the need of such a memoir becomes less remote. Zip should be perpetuated. For in a time of mental, moral and physical pattern and similarity he stood for originality...
...years. To this old man Death was no supernatural thing. He had seen it come hundreds of thousand of times for his plants when their juices were dried up and their stalks withered. He considered it was just a "state of being" that began when an organism's vital principle ceased functioning. He regarded himself as an organism differing from the many that he had studied only in his complexity. He entertained no idea that after his vital principle ceased functioning he would begin a new, disembodied life as a "soul" hovering through the universe under unearthly, eternal conditions...
...than these obvious activities is the influence which Mr. Lawrence and Mr. Hicks are exerting upon the students of the college. These men, appointed by the Bishop of the Diocese, to act as student chaplains, have devoted their time and energy to bring to the individual student the true, vital significance of the Christian way of life. Their work, by the very nature of it, has been slow and gradual, but is having a deep effect which can not help but grow...
Harvard is not alone a New England university, it is an American university. When Dean Pound asks funds from the people for the development of the Law School he is expressing the real as well as the ideal Harvard. The university has grown with the nation, is vital because of the nation, and remains so only as long as the educational needs of the nation are best served. That a continuance of already proven policy will best serve those needs is obvious. But certain obstacles, formidable, definite, present themselves...
...committee of the Council in the matter of instruction in philosophy. It is proposed that the philosophy course shall quite directly envisage the "current conflict between religion and science" not, apparently, in a matter which assumes to settle the question ex-cathedra, but in a way to present the vital elements of the subject. The report says: "The course should present the philosophy of Plato, that of Aristotle, of the Stoics, of Kant, of one of the Moderns, say Bergson, and possibly one or two others." Though the committee does not say so, in presenting this demand it is echoing...