Word: vitality
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...this country is for the development of the "modern scholar" in the true sense of the word. By means of the elective system and of advanced courses, Harvard is unabled to bring about in its graduate students ripe thought and well developed scholarships. The aim is attained by a vital and manly culture which enables each man to make use of his education as a means of entering into the active life of the nation at large by actual contact in public life and by conducting the work done in minor colleges...
...Publicity of election is a preventure of fraud, and a fair ballot and an honest count is the vital principle of our system of government. For these the bill provides...
...vital points of disagreement are two. First, Yale desires only one game of football annually between the university "elevens" and that in New York, whereas Harvard desires two games, one at Cambridge, the other at New Haven or New York as Yale shall elect (Article V. S 2). Secondly, Yale wishes and Harvard does not wish to exclude from the teams special students in the Academic and Scientific departments (Article...
...appointments and promotions." Reference is made to the new regulations presented by the overseers and adopted by the faculty. The president accounts for the neglect by the faculty of any such administrative orders, by the fact that the elective system had turned their attention to other more vital matters...
...vote of the Athletic Committee which we print this morning is obviously a measure of vital importance to Harvard athletics and as such is bound to be subjected to a deal of conflicting criticism. Before discussing, however, the probable effect of the committee's vote or the immediate bearing which the present condition of our athletics may have had upon their action, we wish for a moment to call the attention of our readers to the historical aspect of the question, believing that a large minority of Harvard men are, to say the least, very imperfectly informed in regard...