Word: vitality
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Spent more than half a day in executive (secret) session considering the nomination of Lieutenant Colonel Duncan K. Major for a Colonelcy, an item of news variously headlined by the press as VITAL DEBATE IN SENATE and OVER FOUR HOURS WASTED IN SENATE TO MAKE ONE COLONEL...
...marched impatiently across the last years of the 19th Century, while Titanic voices prophesied the glory of a bigger, brighter, better age to come, an Episcopal clergyman, vital, imaginative, brilliant, went forth to serve God in Arkansas. Vision and power were his. He felt the kingdom of Heaven was not impossible of fulfillment in America. He became Bishop. Let men love one another and praise...
...Jazz--good jazz--is America's only original contribution to the music of the world", continued Professor Hill. It reveals a typical American mood and possesses a new and vital-rhythm. How far that mood and rhythm may be applied to what you probably call 'highbrow' music remains to be seen. Some American composer with a proper sense of style who is well grounded in both types of music may embody all the features of jazz in a symphonic composition...
Professor emeritus Ephraim Emorton '71, professor of History at the University since 1876 and author of several historical books, will give at 4 o'clock tomorrow afternoon the first of a series of seven Sunday afternoon addresses on subjects of vital interest to students in every department of the University to be held under the auspices of the Graduate Schools Society at Phillips Brooks House. Professor Emerton's subject will be "War and Peace Historically Considered...
Seven addresses on questions of vital interest were announced yesterday by the Graduate Schools Society of Phillips Brooks House. These speeches will be given on Sunday afternoons at four o'clock, beginning this week. They are planned primarily for graduate students and friends, but other members of the University may attend the meetings...