Word: vitality
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...week period from March 6 to March 19 for the purpose of consulting Freshman regarding their choice of concentration. The Freshman Advisers will also be available during the same period. In order that the advisors and departmental representatives may have sufficient time to consult with students regarding so vital a question as the choice of a field of concentration, it is important that members of the class of 1940 commence these interviews as soon as possible instead of leaving the matter until the last few days of the period set aside for conferences...
Incorporated in President Conant's latest report to the Board of Overseers-a statement which surveys the Tercentenary, the Conference of scholars held in connection with it, the University Professorships, the National Scholarships, and the Teacher's Oath, among many other vital matters-is a novel and pertinent suggestion, the organization of the extra-curricular study of American history. The purpose, foreshadowed in the Tercentenary address, is to "find the principle that is needed to unify our liberal arts tradition and mold it to suit our age", "the common denominator among educated men which would enable them to face...
...injunction against SEC to prevent release of its old data but finally capitulated in its 1936 report, out last fortnight. Last week National Can, a subsidiary of McKeesport Tin Plate and No. 3 U. S. can maker, also revealed its sales. Though Continental's report still omitted the vital figures, it was now possible to fill in most of the hitherto sketchy can picture. Total can production amounted to some $375,000,000. American Can's share was $185,000,000, just under one-half the total, as against the nine-tenths it enjoyed nearly 40 years...
...while the fields of concentration and the Littauer School take care of those professionally interested in government, the Guardian can perform a vital function, both within the college and outside, by catering to amateur interests. If radio talks on administrative reorganization, civil service reform, regulation of industry, and the like can engender a more intelligent attitude towards government in those who do not concentrate in political fields and in the public at large, the experiment of the embryonic publication deserves every aerial success...
Reporting this phenomenon last week, the city registrar of records also noted that the city death rate was 10.5 per 1,000, and commented: "If conditions continue we shall probably reach a point where the two rates will balance." That point, said New York State's Vital Statistician Dr. Joseph Vital De Porte, who simultaneously reported a similar convergence of birth and death rates in his larger province, will mark "a demographic equinox...