Word: vitality
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Recent editorials, etc., stress the fact that the lecture system is one of the most vital features of a college education. The vast possibilities of a column such as the "Student Vagabond," excellent as far as it goes, remain practically untouched...
...World's Almanac has at last a competitor in this register of the vital statistics of the Universe. Waterfalls, steamships, bridges, and the dimensions of the solar system are all listed in the front of the book with numerous other tables of interesting or prominent points which are usually neglected in map-editing...
...vital a field as government, it is criminal that a university of Harvard's repute and influence should continue to provide so unsatisfactory and uninspiring an approach as Government 1. Not since the days when A. Lawrence Lowell was the lecturer has the course possessed any real value for those whose major concern is to grasp the fundamentals of modern government and a few significant principals of political theory. To be sure, the course has been reorganized this year, but the emphasis has been on reform of material alone, not of lecturing...
...annual, banquet. In balconies, hanging over the railings to watch the eating & drinking better, were the womenfolk. At the speakers' table big, bluff President Edward Dickinson Duffield took his place, and close to him his good old friend, Dr. Frederick Ludwig Hoffman, Prudential's longtime consultant on vital statistics. Dr. Hoffman, a frail and fretful oldster, fidgeted as he ate and drank. For President Duffield had scheduled the banquet as Dr. Hoffman's 70th birthday party. It was a special salute to him, and a farewell. He had passed his company's age limit and, willynilly...
...with $2,000,000, Prudential has enlarged until this week it had $16,000,000,000 insurance in force, assets of $2,500,000,000. A significant part of the prudence which encompassed those magnitudes is due, all insurance men agree, to Dr. Hoffman's analyses of vital statistics and studies of the various things that kill insurable human beings. He has published some 1,200 articles, pamphlets and books on vital statistics, occupational diseases, tropical mortality, leprosy, capital punishment, tuberculosis, radium poisoning. He reads five newspapers each day and an uncounted number of magazines and books. From...