Word: vitalism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...educational officials must allow all such open criticism and discussion to continue if our democracy is to survive. Repression of "dangerous ideas" creates a far more dangerous situation than if they are aired fully and freely in the public eye. In order to think intelligently on today's vital political, economic, and social issues, high school and college youths must be acquainted with both sides of the matter at hand...
...Japanese hurricane has leveled to the ground the great national library of Peiping, a vital part of the educational equipment of the North China universities. But Chinese scholars, who have been blown to Kumming in the South, have established a new national library. It is a library without books. To fill it, an appeal has been broadcast to the world and to Harvard College. The spirit of unity which binds fellow seekers after knowledge should compel a willing response...
...John Simon, Chancellor of the Exchequer, Britain will also compensate civilian wage-earners for loss of life or injury and property owners for loss or damage of property "as far as circumstances permit" -i. e., as long as the treasury is able to pay. In order to keep vital trade going during a war, the Government has worked out an insurance scheme with Lloyd's of London and eight other insurance concerns, which will, in turn, be reinsured to a certain extent by the Government, to cover British merchantmen, their cargoes and the stock of goods stored...
Later, British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, speaking in the House of Commons, served notice that Britain would tolerate no "threat to vital interests of France, from whatever quarter it came." Any threat, he said, would "evoke the immediate cooperation of this country." It was the strongest pledge of aid to France yet made by Mr. Chamberlain...
Modern educators, including President Conant, are currently vying with each other in their loud huzzahs for extra-curricular activities as a vital part of an education. Official Harvard recognizes them in its scholarship awards and in various other honors. The undergraduate body recognizes them by common respect for participants. In choosing his activity, each student must be guided by his own interest and capabilities. But the Crimson likes to feel that it shelters under its skirts such a variety of activities that it can satisfy the bent of almost everyone...