Word: vitale
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...compromise was the key-note of the Convention session this afternoon, and the feature of the official activities was the appointment by Chairman Harding of a committee of five to confer with a similar committee of Progressives for the direct purpose of finding some common grounds for action. Vital importance was attached to this appointment by the delegates...
...which will be made of the best material we have in this country for officers, and will not only improve the average efficiency of reserve organizations, but also spread throughout the country a better, more sane and safe program of preparedness--preparedness in a matter which is of vital importance,--that of obtaining trained officers before even any men are enlisted for new organizations...
...enthusiasm was aroused and enough enlistments secured to justify the movement as a success. Considerably over a hundred new men were enrolled in one branch or the other. A hundred men may be equivalent to a hundred officers in time of war, enough to command three regiments. But the vital result of the week is not reflected in the number of enlistments; rather in the number of men interested. Preparedness Week has officially ceased, but there is no reason why enlistments should not continue in even greater volume, to pass the seven hundred mark and go beyond. J. T. RODGERS...
Here is the vital point of the whole subject--a point which has been buried in the sand of Union Committee Reports, etc. The ideal university is one where tuition is free, and where the only barrier to admission is an intellectual barrier. This ideal is not possible, perhaps, but a proximity to it is possible. Shall we make Harvard an oligarchy? Must we feed every promiscuous white elephant, which strays into our back Yard? Consider! L. P. MANSFIELD...
...Asia, has just completed a tour of evangelism through India, and his experiences there will furnish him with very interesting material for discussion. Dean Charles R. Brown, of the Yale School of Religion, will make four addresses on the question of a vital and rational faith. Fletcher S. Brockman, former secretary of the Y. M. C. A. in China, and Robert E. Speer will also speak of certain phases of Christian service. Harry Emerson Fosdick, author of various religious books, will again be present to appeal to college men, with whom he has so successfully co-operated...