Word: vitality
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...colleagues in Cincinnati. At a time when there is prevslent widespread corruption on the one hand, and a sense of the futility of reform on the other, these achievements stand as positive proof that men animated with a true public spirit, and possessing knowledge and initiative can effect vital reformations in local government. These accomplishments in Cincinnati offer both hope and inspiration to men interested in making themselves factors for good in government...
...long series of experiments is going on to determine the relation of temperature to the speeds and frequencies of vital processes. Some experiments are investigating the nature of sensory processes, others deal with the effect of ultra-violet radiation on cells and enzymes...
...thoroughgoing banking reforms can be brought about until two vital changes have been accomplished. The first is to bring all the commercial banks of the country, small as well as large, under the single aegis of the Federal Reserve System. The second is to establish sensible provisions for regional branch-banking. . . . Then we should have something worth talking about...
...most good, states in part: "A prosperous brewing industry on a whole-some basis will do more for genuine temperance than any group of idealists or reformers over could do in a thousand years . . . Right now is the time to interest the college and school youth in the vital problems of the brewing industry . . . undergraduates, perverted and vitiated by the vicious booting liquor . . . Before prohibition, beer was regarded as a comcomitant of a college career . . . Not one tenth of one per cent of the youth in college know what really good American beer tastes like . . . They will have...
...place as large as Harvard there is a need for a President who has educational idealism vigorous enough to unify and direct the intellectual efforts of both Faculty and students. There is a danger at Harvard that the vital intellectual enthusiasm which undoubtedly exists, by being hopelessly scattered, may lose much of its force. Harvard needs at its head a man who, through the vitality of his own intellectual life and through a living interest in the educational standards of the college, can embody and focus the ideals for which Harvard ought to stand...