Word: vitality
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...more immediate interest than this tribute to the success of divisional is the part of the report dealing with the tutorial system. Here vital changes are taking place. For the Dean's office, finally realizing the failure of tutorial for certain types of students, has moved toward establishing two brands of tutorial instruction; one for those who genuinely benefit from it, and the other for those for whom course work makes a full schedule and further effort is backbreaking...
...present Neutrality Law May 1, Franklin Roosevelt has a quick interest in both. And Mr. Runciman, as president of Britain's Board of Trade (a position analogous to and far more potent than Secretary of Commerce in the U. S.), was there to pose some vital questions concerning both laws. Question...
have a right to complain of the injustice of their Government." (1832) Abraham Lincoln: "If the policy of the Government, upon vital questions affecting the whole people, is to be irrevocably fixed by decisions of the Supreme Court, it is plain that the people will have ceased to be their own rulers." (1857) There is no attempt in Federal Justice, as there is in Lawyer Morris Ernst's new book on the Supreme Court (TIME, Jan. 18), to take from the judiciary the ultimate sanction in U. S. life...
...establishing April scholastic aptitude tests for candidates for Freshman scholarships, Harvard has taken the lead in an educational advance of paramount importance, and it is a step forward particularly vital to Harvard herself. For with the national scholarships spreading their tentacles over a number of new states next year, the aptitude tests should considerably facilitate the choice of men for these positions...
...Griswold, professor of Law; Arthur N. Holcombe, '06, professor of Government; Nathan Isaacs, professor of Business Law; Ward Shepard, '10, director of the Harvard Forest; Sumner H. Slichter, professor of Business Economics; John H. Williams, Nathaniel Ropes Professor of Political Economy; and Edwin B. Wilson, '99, professor of Vital Statistics. E. Pendleton Herring, instructor of Government has been named secretary for the faculty. Additional members will be added from time to time...