Word: vitality
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...House Plan has brought together men from different fields, but casual conversation, with its tendency to stay on the surface, does not produce the intellectual clash, and consequent examination of fundamentals, which ought to make the Houses vital intellectual influences as well as superior eating clubs. The plan for House forums is an ideal one; its realization would be difficult. But the prize is worth all the effort which can go toward attaining...
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...Nicholai Borodin, curater of fishes at the Peabody Museum. When the fish is frozen, it goes into a state which corresponds very much to that of an animal's hibernation, except that the fish at this time does not breathe at all, but is kept alive by some unknown vital force. How long the fish can be kept alive in a frozen state, Dr. Borodin has not yet found...
Biography might not solve the whole problem of education, but a really substantial dose of it would act to make up one vital lack in most undergraduate curricula. It would help correlate the divergent fields of educational effort, and educators are coming more and more to agreement that lack of correlation is the principle fault of their trade...
...faces another large deficit in its budget. There is a decrease in the annual yield of income taxes alone from $2,400,000,000 in the years of prosperity to only $1,200,000,000 today. ... In these circumstances I am directing the most drastic economy in every non-vital branch of Government...