Word: vitality
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...lead in nation-wide disarmament--a lead so auspiciously begun at the Conference. "Japan is now torn in conflict over the question of reduction of armaments. France is undecided as to what policy it is safe for her to adopt. Italy, oppressed already by problems of the most vital nature, is willing to go as far as the other nations will let her. Even England is still hesitant. They are all watching America to see what she will do about it. They are all willing to cut their military strength by one half if only our country will take...
...Conference is not over", he declared. "It is a futile thing till the treaties are ratified. And the country is overwhelmingly in favor of immediate ratification. The farmers want the army and navy appropriations slashed, because when this bill has been paid no money remains for purposes that are vital to their welfare. The workers want the army and navy appropriations slashed for the same reason. A great nation like ours ought to be able in times of national unemployment to build necessary roads, canals and public buildings, and our Army and Navy so cramp us that...
...minds, is it altogether inappropriate to repeat a suggestion already made to the Board of Overseers,--that of a new Quadrangle, which would be a permanent war memorial, respecting in every way the memory of the University's dead, and at the same time solving one of the most vital problems now confronting the University's living...
...discussion is technical, stimulated by excellent intentions, and necessary; but we are inclined to agree on technical matters with Coach Fisher when he says: "The game is all right; let it alone." It is probably not to be expected that the coaches will discuss the more general and more vital problems of the game--the problems about which such a great number of educators, and newspapers, have been talking lately; those who "teach" the game are too close to see its dangerous tendencies. Nevertheless, if the coaches could realize the absolute necessity of grading down the over-emphasis now placed...
Professor Bouton was preeminently a teacher. Whether he were engaged in steering a Freshman section through the rocks and shoals that beset the approach to analytic geometry, or in guiding a graduate student in his research, he had an unerring instinct for picking out what was essential and vital, to the exclusion of the trivial and unimportant. His mathematical judgment was unerring, his advice on scientific questions was absolutely sound. No pains were too great to be expended on any student, his pupils had always the first claim to his time, and no one who applied...