Word: vitality
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...wants to take, and who has sufficient persuasion and logic to induce him to follow the advice. Exactly what is the importance of Renaissance history? Or, the respective merits and advantages of sciences and economics, in an age which stresses both to the exclusion of most others: or, the vital and personal benefits to be derived from a study of Philosophy. These are questions which I have occasionally heard juniors discussing: Yet they should be placed before every freshman, at least in such a way that he sees what lies before...
...derived from outside activities. The compromise that must be effected between rival interests is a problem that, if worked out for himself, can be of the greatest value to the student. No matter what career he takes up, some day the question of apportioning his time will become the vital issue and often success or failure may depend on his solution. To attempt to keep him from gaining such valuable experience by a rule that sets a uniform limit to a quality as varied as capacity for work is to give substance to the impression that colleges pass all students...
...series of interpretive qualifications which would deprive of all meaning the phrase "renouncing war as an instrument of national policy." For example, Sir Austen Chamberlain declares: "I should remind your Excellency that there are certain regions of the world the welfare and integrity of which constitute a special and vital interest for our peace and safety...
...brother-in-law as President. For two decades and a half he has held that post with a royal aloofness from party squabbles, yet with an extraordinary democracy in private life. Such is his prestige that he was chosen without demur or question to represent Japan at the vital Washington Conference...
...pledge to renounce war as an instrument of national policy include self-defense, violation of the treaty by any signatory, obligations of the League of Nations states arising from the League covenant, and the Locarno obligations. To offset these concessions Secretary Kellogg has asked no reservations for such a vital American policy as the Monroe Doctrine...