Word: vitality
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...University Club, originally announced as the place of gathering, to the Harvard Club was largely the result of the interest excited, the number who wished to attend, and the desire of Harvard men to hear the message and discuss it with the Bishop. The subject is "Three Unappreciated Factors Vital to America's Commonweal and a Great University's Relation to Them...
College students--not yet having attained intellectuality--rarely feel, this sympathy; in attempting to develop a closer understanding and cooperation with the working multitudes, the Dartmouth Club performs a vital service. In such a combination the masses gain direction, expression, prestige--while the "intellectual" who casts his lot with them acquires the support, the dignity, the political effectiveness without which his own talents are helpless...
...Modernists and Fundamentalists. Ever since the dark shadow of Darwinism came over the world, public morality has been progressing downward. The world must have a moral foundation and that foundation can only be found in religion. Take away religion and the whole moral structure falls. Today we have lost vital religion and therefore we have lost morality. Evolutionary philosophy is godless...
...once the spirit of keen competition and friendly rivalry can be expressed in appropriate words by the contestants themselves. While the audience must perforce wait until the end of the debate to register its complete approval or disapproval, the fact that the discussion centers upon the very vital problem of limitation of enrolment should make the decision fairly significant...
This is no highly scientific treatise written for the information of the professional biologist, psychologist, or anthropologist. But it is the simple statement of vital facts regarding our civilization and the ultimate end of that civilization. And added to the interest which these startling revelations and pertinent questions naturally present is a force of expression, a frank fearlessness, and an easy wit that makes the book unusually good reading. It can not fail to interest any one who enjoys clear, sound thinking revealed in a delightful style of wit and strength...