Word: vitalism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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International peace is a bromidic subject, but in this connection it is wise to remember that international education does much to foster universal accord. Therefore it is vital that America send her best to study at foreign colleges, and that these men be distributed over as many countries as possible. The new Rhodes Scholarship plan should make both these ideals a reality...
...Federation of Labor, which is now convening in Boston at the Hotel Bradford, in an interview recently declared that undergraduates of Harvard College should turn their attention to economic subjects and particularly to a study of the causes and remedies of unemployment which he believes is one of the vital problems facing America today. Green stated that he believed students would obtain a better and more complete perspective of unemployment as a whole if they were familiar with the philosophy of the organization that he heads...
...With the nation economically depressed the R-IOI'S loss seemed to strike brutally deep into Britain's present pessimistic psychology. People gathered on street corners to ask each other WHY? They had known the R-IOI affectionately as "The Old Bus," looked upon her as a vital link in the new, swift transportation chains of Empire...
...bewildered and entirely alone. At Harvard, because of its vast size, he may be completely disregarded. The Phillips Brooks House, realizing this danger, has established a committee to direct the welfare of the foreigner. It has made arrangements to bring the visiting students together, and what is far more vital, it has made possible contacts between Americans and Europeans...
...prices into President Herbert Hoover's head he could not order Fords and Chevrolets sold at $100 apiece. But Soviet Dictator Josef Stalin can do things remarkably like that. To understand this, to gauge the potential power of Red statesmen to work mischief in world markets, was more vital last week than to be scared by lurid rumors of Red grain dumping in Liverpool and Amsterdam, Red speculating for the decline in Chicago's wheat...