Word: vitality
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Food," he said, "is the one matter of vital importance to Europe. It is indeed reaching the continental countries at present, but it is doubtful whether it is yet arriving in quantities sufficient to arrest the spread of the dictatorship of the proletariat. The American people must be made to realize that the infant republics of Europe are in the dire need of our aid, and that far from the armistice and treaty having brought about the success of the cause for which we were struggling, they rather added to the responsibilities of the Allies and particularly of America...
...great universities are to maintain their leadership," said Governor Allen to a CRIMSON reporter, "then they must keep in touch with the vital things of the world. This applies particularly to Harvard, which has already given recognition to the demand for the teaching of practical things...
...reasons easily discoverable. There has come into the age a demand for a remedy for industrial strife a remedy which will place the subject under the proper regulation of government. A very instructive course in industrial relations could be created at Harvard which would given the University a vital leadership as the established of the remedy...
...every industry we are confronted with chaos and ignorance at the vital points that affect human relations. The problems is one of social engineering. The most harrassing of all industrial evils for example is the irregularity of employment. But we must not view it as a visitation of God but as a challenge to science. The questions of hours, again, is not a question to be decided by haranguing but by scientific treatment. But as President Eliot recently observed, on this vital question we have absolutely no scientific data...
...works with his hands. He has been a director of labor in great enterprises and he knows from personal experience the responsibilities and difficulties of the director of labor. He knows the economic condition of the world better, perhaps, than any other American, and economic understanding is now a vital element in government. He knows the diplomacy and the politics of Europe as few Americans have ever known them. Moreover, he knows them at first hand, as he knows conditions in the Far East at first hand, and such a knowledge has become essential to any intelligent direction...