Word: vitality
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that made recently by Professor Lake's expedition in the Sinai Peninsula, when the tomb of the Egyptian goddess Hathor was unearthed, brings to an institution of learning the credit to which its efforts entitle it. Present day science has reached the stage where much of the most vital work is done far from the cloistered museums and libraries. Like bread cast upon the waters, the support given Harvard to its globetrotting expeditions is repaying the University many times...
...vivid phrase of Frank Simonds, "wage neutrality"--that is, insist on maintaing to the utmost each of its rights under international law. This plan, however, as the experiences of 1914-1917 demonstrated, leads almost inevitably to involvement, since in modern warfare economic factors are of such vital importance, the blockade is so deadly a weapon, that self-preservation forces belligerents to curtail neutral trading privileges. The other course, less glorious but more realistic, is to withdraw the protection of the government from those who engage in commerce with warring nations. The Nye-Clark resolutions would be a step towards...
Good taste has been too often in years past a blind to camouflage insidious indifference. Long enough has Williams been merely a 'gentleman's college,' for lack of any more vital purpose. None of these outworn epitaphs of an intellectual graveyard does the "Record" intend to extol simply for their own sakes. It is high time that to the weedy, run-down sod we apply not a roller, but a plowshare, in the hope of encouraging some new and greener vegetation...
...seats of higher learning are rotten with un-Americanism. The "Student News," however, fulfills a legitimate function, defined in a remarkably calm editorial as: "to ensure adequate presentation of our activities and policies." If only as evidence that Harvard's traditional freedom of speech actually exists in a vital and elastic form, the existence of the new paper is justified...
Protesting against what they term the inadequacy of existing undergraduate publications to take the lead in matters of vital college interest, the National Student League will flood the news-stands Thursday morning with the first issue of a new weekly newspaper to be called "The Student News...