Word: vitalism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...abolition of restraints, fostered by President Eliot, can readily be seen, and has ordinarily been considered a favorable development in our educational system. To anyone who considered the distinction between undergraduate and graduate objectives, however, the value of these courses appears less obvious. The distinction in many subjects in vital, and courses which lose sight of it tend to fall between two stools...
...worst, such courses ought to direct the graduate to fruitful subjects of original research; these are frequently remote from the main body of the subject. The undergraduate's aim, to the contrary, is more modest, and the task of the professor in to introduce him to the vital aspects of a given subject while avoiding the superficial gleaning of the survey course...
Gulf & West Texas Railway, controlled by Southern Pacific, is linking San Angelo and San Antonio. Vital to the project is the Fredericksburg & Northern. Its owners asked $350,000 for the property. The Southern Pacific bid only $200,000, claiming that the line is so rundown that it will cost $733,000 to make its unballasted, steep right-of-way fit for through traffic. Last week the I. C. C. told F. & N. that unless it sells out for $200,000 S. P. will be granted permission to build parallel tracks. This would cost S. P. only...
WANTON MALLY-Booth Tarkington-Donbleday, Doran ($2). Thirty-two years ago, Booth Tarkington hit the popular fancy in a vital spot with a sentimental trifle called Monsieur Beaucaire. Publishers, like children, want their entertainers to do it again. Often enough the entertainer would if he could, but too often the magic virtue has gone out of him. Wanton Mally makes pleasant enough reading, but. . . . M. de Grammont, banished from the French Court, whiles away exile in Charles II's London, soon finds a partner for his madcap follies in Jinny Wilmot, an attractively odd-looking Bright Young Person...
...Charles the most glamorous of fall contests. Buffalo, Yale, Holy Cross, Dartmouth, all can furnish but dull counter-parts of Harvard, like Harvard preparing grubbing, grubbing, grubbing students with the elements of an education with which to fashion life. But with the Cadets comes a romance more real, more vital, than the round of artificial pleasures offered by the Somerset, Beacon Hill, and the Brattles. The trim uniforms, the electric response to crisp commands, the venerable joke about the mule, these combine to give a sense of purpose, a promise of a definite future, which makes the academic student, preparing...