Word: vitale
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Once on the college rolls, the athletes must somehow be kept there. Their schedules must be arranged without reference to the normal procedure leading to graduation, but rather to enable them to meet the minimum requirements . . . Courses most vital to the attainment of the educational ideal of the college are avoided in the search for the easy course . . . The regimen of football players makes them unable to enter a program of premedical study. There is pressure for special consideration for athletes on the score of heavy athletic duty. The tragic consequence is illustrated by the graduation records of the past...
...President Deane W. Malott, former chancellor of the University of Kansas: "The fearful ones who hate and condemn the liberalism in our colleges never suggest any additions to the store of human knowledge, but always subtractions. They want us to leave out all that is interesting and vital, the great current social issues, the great controversies in forms of government, systems of finance and policies of ethics . . . Such a course would not mean free minds...
White flag in hand, a 28-year-old Chinese officer crossed into the allied lines one day last week, just bursting with talk. Lieutenant Fan Wei-ning cheerfully gave out vital facts on the officers and men in his division-their ages, their equipment, their battle plans. Then he asked for a map of the village where his division was based, and eagerly pinpointed supply dumps, command posts and gun positions...
...termed the House action "an example of a wide misunderstanding as to the vital importance of advances in pure science." He said he hoped the Senate would "rectify this error." The House granted the Foundation only $300,000, a cut of 98 percent from the requested...
...Lowell. Asquith maintained for four brilliant years the illusion that he never went to lectures, and made his name by affecting complete indifference to all exams. He went to great lengths to obtain lecture notes: reading those of his friends late at light when they were asleep, attending vital lectures in exotic disguises, and so forth. Thus he would be completely prepared when the inevitable friend broached the topic of the imminent hour exam...