Word: vitalism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sums to be paid annually for 57 years, and sets up as a "cash register" the new bank for international settlements. But there have been profound changes in the spirit of the Plan. It was conceived as a business plan, and business today rests heavily on such vague but vital things as "confidence" and "goodwill." Dr. Schacht was talking truth when he said last week: "After the second Hague Conference nothing remained of mutual cooperation, nothing of confidence in Germany, nothing of helping Germany to carry out the difficult task prescribed in the Young Plan. ... I am even now willing...
Dartmouth sentiment upon the vital issues, wine, women, and song, crystallized in the annual senior preference poll, shows some unexpected results. The gentile old fashioned atmosphere which has enveloped Hanover ever since a certain young lady who wore curls and shuddered at the sight of cigarettes found herself Dartmouth's Carnival Queen has been rudely dispelled by an emphatic vote of approval for brown eyes, black hair, and "speed" of an unspecified amount from Dartmouth seniors. A public led by impressionistic journalists to believe that a demure Dartmouth student body picks its feminine ideals out of Cooper's novels...
...mass undoubtedly is) believe that this is a formidable reason for appeal. It is decidedly natural that the voters should be confirmed to an opposing point of view. The Harvard CRIMSON takes time to notice that the prohibition system has run amiss, but of course this, a national, a vital political issue, is given minor consideration...
...could look behind the scenes in London I think you would find that the vital fact is not so much the technical problem of cruisers and submarines as the pressure of big industries on the governments. Since armaments still form 25 percent of our government budget the steel industry, remembering what the disarming of Germany did to the Krupp works, is still strong for a big navy...
...News Letter objects to a discussion of national questions for purely ethical reasons. In strong contradiction to this argument, it might be pointed out that, from an ethical standpoint, no newspaper, either collegiate or national, is justified in maintaining silence when it can shed vital light on important questions. The statistics which can be gathered from undergraduates on the question of drinking are vital and no other national law has worked such a constant influence among college men. Ethically, the question that should be asked is not "What can college men do about prohibition?" but, "What should college...