Word: vitale
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...mental maturity and the reason a student needs a certain maturity on entering college is so that he may be enabled to get more out of English A, German A, History I and the other elementary courses. These elementary courses should not be done away with. There is a vital need for each and I believe that if general courses such as History I were forced on Seniors, each graduate would carry away with him a more coherent understanding of what he had studied...
...work of the Red Cross in peace times consists of aiding disabled veterans of the World War and sending immediate relief in cases of disaster or emergency. During the last year vital aid was given in 90 catastrophes ranging from tornado and fire to mine explosion and earthquake. The peace time purpose of this organization is given in the Congressional Chapter; "To continue and carry on a system of national and international relief in time of peace and to apply the same in mitigating the suffering caused by pestilence, famine, fire, floods and other great national calamities, and to devise...
...peoples. The chief representatives of this stock are Arabians, Arameans, Assyrians, Babylonians, Hebrews, and Phoenicians. The Semites were among the earliest peoples to rise to the state of civilized life. They have given to the world the alphabet, monotheism, three great religions, and three great books of religions. So vital and pervasive have these contributions been that, without a knowledge of their source, a large part of modern civilization is unintelligible...
...There is another picture in between, which is of vital interest to the whole scheme of national defense, and of tremendous import to the safety of our country. The difference between the plotted curve of production and that of munitions as they must be supplied to make men effective in case of war, is such that it would take almost a year to balance them, and wars can be won or lost many times during those months...
...well to stop right here. . . . Oh yes, just a word about "The Red Kimono". It is a sermon by Mrs. Wallace Reid on the life of the streetwalker and its attendant evils. Being a bit irrelevant as far as we were concerned, it didn't get a very vital grip on our interest, except as it distressed whatever feelings we have for art in the movies...