Word: vitale
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There are important thinkers and speakers on war, peace, neutrality, and foreign affairs whom Harvard should hear. There are vital phases of current problems which are outside the range of the regular university courses. It is the duty and opportunity of the Peace Committee to attract these men and study these subjects. If the work of the Committee is successful this year, its influence should transcend the membership lines of the Student Union, and include every interested man in the college...
...eyes of the academic world are focused on Wisconsin where there is being waged a battle which, while perhaps not vital in and of itself, is momentous in its implications. The effect of the replacement of Dr. Glenn Frank by another man of liberal tendencies might cause no great effect on the educational life of the state university but the establishment of precedent by the displacement of a liberal president of a supposedly-liberal university through the whim of the supposedly-progressive governor of that state would be a telling blow to educational freedom in America...
...modesty and winning character, achieved more than the State Department had expected or hoped, skillfully assisted by its Spanish-speaking Sumner Welles, among diplomats an ace professional. This week the Conference had to its credit not only several positive achievements at Buenos Aires but several negatives of an especially vital nature...
...Simpson unquestionably knows many of the British Empire's most vital State secrets. The abdication of King Edward could not have satisfied that great lawyer, Home Secretary Sir John Simon, had not His Majesty's Government been today in possession of the most binding engagements signed by Mrs. Simpson not to divulge these secrets. It was also necessary, for the highest reasons of State and also for other reasons, to establish in an official manner whether or not last week Mrs. Simpson was with child, as suggested by the Paris newspaper L'Oeuvre...
...Most vital to the life of both new periodicals is a solution to the problem of contributions. With two well entrenched magazines already on the seen prepared to swallow available talent, with the traditional "don't-give-a-damn" attitude of Harvard men to combat, the enthusiasts of tonight will face a discouraging morning after. Whether heirs to a new venture like the "Monthly" can be found is a matter of grave doubt. Meantime, the established periodicals will put up a spirited fight for existence...