Word: vitalism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Lowell, and Willard Whitman, Adams, gained the halfback posts. Lewis a strong blocking back, was the tops in line-backing, his 180 pounds aiding materially to give him the stamina to play entire games. Whitman is the outstanding passer, his slants to Bob Akerson an Adams teammate, proving the vital factor in the defeat of Kirkland by the Coasters...
...Walter Huston the President's favorite actor-or have more vital matters prevented his attendance at the theatre-or does he care little for the theatre...
...only for the Eighth Route (former Communist) Army fighters. Neutral observers report, however, that the Japanese have been slain four to one in their skirmishes with the Communists. Last week, after retreating from the Japanese for 16 months, leaving them sprawling toward the interior on all China's vital communication lines, Chiang publicly proclaimed a policy of large-scale guerrilla, hit-&-run attacks...
...meteorological course would only be a poor second to the courses at Tech., and, on the other hand, the knowledge that no one could teach an elementary course in the subject as well as the late Professor Ward of Harvard, have persuaded members of the Department to omit five vital courses. Certainly Professor Brooks is more than competent to give an introductory course, and failing him, there are others such as Dr. Lange of the Blue Hill Observatory. With a little encouragement the Department can perhaps throw away its good-old-days-we're-liked-now policy, pull itself together...
...past been sources of positive embarrassment to the University. There have been lecture series, even professorships, which involved questionable and unnecessary attacks upon popular institutions, even upon religions. Negatively equivalent to this is the fact that restricted grants have frequently supported eminently useless projects. Arising, perhaps, from vital controversies in the eighteenth century, these later became unique for their insignificance, yet had to be perpetuated. Wealth means little to Harvard when devoted to such ends...