Word: vitale
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...lecture of Captain Ian Hay Beith scheduled for February 12 in the Union deserves a large audience. First hand impressions always have something of vital life which no impersonal speculation may attain. The Captain has spoken already at Yale and Princeton. His talk here is especially interesting because he speaks from the same platform where Mrs. Skeffington spoke, with a different view of the same events which have affected them both. His conclusions will be judged by the same judgments as were hers...
...will deal especially with the question of the necessary size of a standing army and the best methods for establishing it, is of particular interest t this time when the University and other educational institutions throughout the country are being called upon to voice their opinions on this vital national question in connection with the Chamberlain Bill which provides for universal military training...
...factors in the life of the university which is not the topic of general conversation but which nearly every one recognizes individually is the tendency for indifference upon some of the most vital phases of college...
...week is marked by the absence of all the social science associations, which meet in Columbus, Ohio. The separation between the social and the physical scientists can surely not be of any real advantage to either. At any rate the great outstanding and deplorable fact is that on the vital questions requiring their co-operation, e.g. the effect of immigration or of the interbreeding of races we have multitudes of impassioned orations and sophomore essays, but nothing worthy of being called science. Thousands upon thousands of studies have been devoted by the historians on the German migrations of the fifth...
...often gets from Harvard papers: here are a lot of clever young men who have read a good deal and know how to write; they are civilized, intelligent, sensitive, literary--but they haven't very much to say for themselves. The poets, particularly fail to express anything vital or even individual. They write pretty fair verse in a good many different forms. Sonnets predominate, but there are specimens of ballade, epigram, stanzas, irregular rhyme and blank verse. There is the usual meteorological trend--snow, wind, waves, sunset and allied phenomena--but on the whole the range is reasonably wide...