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Word: vitality (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sent three daughters to Bryn Mawr or Mt. Holyoke. [I am not sure which college he designated. It was one or the other. Perhaps the three doubters distributed themselves. Both colleges were mentioned by the father.] My married daughter is not teaching her children their prayers, a vital mistake to my Methodist mind. Probably Mrs. Blaisdell is from Bryn Mawr [or Mt. Holyoke], therefore unashamed, even proud of her infidelity. But life brings folks to their knees, I have noticed. She is young yet," he concluded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 16, 1931 | 11/16/1931 | See Source »

Although there are courses in Contemporary literature there are none in Contemporary events. Surely, few in the departments of Economics, Government, and History are not interested in that vital history now on the march. Surely, in one course at least, the history of the past could be made the corollary of an avowed intensive study of the present. To trace back the causes of present events to authoritative sources in the past is, after all, only traversing the same corridor in an opposite direction, backed by the impetus of living data...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HISTORY ON THE MARCH | 11/14/1931 | See Source »

Americans are compelled to admit that the "educated American," the normal product of free institutions, is still, on the average, ill-informed and, worse still, lacking in those vital intellectual interests which insure continued intellectual effort after the initial course, the university days, are over. By neglecting the principle of selection for fitness, America has failed to give to prospective leadership the training and, equally important, the lasting interest in the world of ideas, which alone can insure effective leadership. Her soundest educational leaders still have, as had Jefferson, full faith in the doctrine of universal education; but they...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Oxford Professor, Formerly at Princeton, Compares English and American Education | 10/28/1931 | See Source »

...educated American' is still lacking in vital intellectual interests. . . The junior college movement has not had time to make clear its full meaning. . . The notable experiments now in train at Harvard and Yale, anticipated by a generation in the thwarted plans of Woodrow Wilson, are attempts to recapture the advantages of the old-fashioned American college...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SALIENT POINTS | 10/28/1931 | See Source »

This is, on the whole, quite a serviceable theory, but it omits the rather vital fact that Magna Charta was signed in 1215. It is perhaps not fair to the English to accuse them of such blindness. But for them the man and the charter do seem anomalous companions...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Student Vagabond | 10/27/1931 | See Source »

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