Word: vitale
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...question at stake is by no means a trivial one. The central states are growing far more rapidly than the eastern in population, in wealth and in culture. Is Harvard to continue year by year to lose her grip on this most vital section of the country, and to become a provincial college with provincial short-comings? Without casting slurs upon Massachusetts, I am free to say that it is the West that Harvard should look for new material in each new class; and yet the West, with a vastly larger population than in 1894, has diminished representation by nearly...
...Rainsford, D.D., of St. George's Church, New York, will deliver an address at the second University meeting in Peabody Hall, Boooks House. This will be the first of a series af addresses which will be given during the year by prominent clergymen of different denominations on subjects of vital interest to college...
...forward with his first volume "in defence of the new landscape art in general, and of the art of Turner in particular." Ruskin saw that "what Turner sought was the ideal truth of nature, that he portrayed Nature in her 'supreme moments,' in her finest forms and in her vital energy,-Nature as she was revealed to a discriminating eye, and to the poetic imagination." With this feeling he began his essay on 'Modern Painters' that grew to five volumes...
...hardly have failed to notice the general ignorance that prevails about the more practical phases of political and official life. Courses in Law and Government answer a good purpose in so far as they treat with the theoretical aspects of public questions; but there are many points of vital importance brought up every year which must be studied through other means...
...means to some future achievement. By applying this idea to other branches of learning, the technique of the various arts and sciences could be acquired almost incidentally, without the undue emphasis which it now receives. The long years wasted over dull statistics could be used for the acquisition of vital knowledge, in which the student could see his own ideals and follow them unconsciously. Education should develop a pupil's ability as well as his knowledge; and this result can never be obtained until effort is made to furnish him with the qualifications for useful citizenship rather than for mere...