Word: vital
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Have not those who have been discussing the Harvard Glee Club rather missed the central point of the whole situation? It would seem that the service rendered by the glee club in developing fine taste in the younger members of our public is so fundamental, so vital to our musical welfare, that we might well regard any minor mistakes in the method of rendering it as negligible...
...words, which is saying a good deal. Mr. Walter Kramer questions the "etiquette" of a Harvard man's making such criticisms of a Yale man's productions, but what have these college-boy partisanships to do with serious matters of artistic beauty where large and vital loyalties are at stake? Suppose a Yale critic were to impugn the taste, which should set up a piece of poetic sentimentality like, let us say. Longfellow's "Psalm of Life" as a model and touchstone for young lovers of poetry. Should we not, Harvard and Yale men alike, regard him as performing...
...Eddie Cantor out in front for fifteen minutes three successive times between luncheon and the final visit to his particular cafeteria for coffee, a Western, and the "Billboard". To the faculty and student body of Harvard College it probably means little or nothing. The three a week is alone vital to them...
Students in the University have shown an increasing indifference in the last few years to the Student Friendship Fund. That this has been in some measure due to the decrease in the vital need for relief in European countries it undoubtedly true. That it is equally to be explained by an ignorance of the actual aims and achievements of the Student Friendship Fund becomes apparent upon examination of the facts...
...unlikely event of a commercial slump, the majority party would be a handy scapegoat. Clever politicians could then marshal the general discontent into a demonstration against the shadowy ethics of the aluminum case. An even more vital grievance can be found in the presidential practice of packing the supposedly non-partisan Tariff Commission with advocates of protection. As a means of holding the present elephantine majority, Republican prayers for prosperity would be more effective than abstract assertions of party rectitude...