Word: vitality
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...period when favorable financial statements, increasing carloadings, bloated surplus bank reserves and low money rates point to rising prices on the stock market, brokers, politicians and business men face one vital issue. Can the federal government stop a runaway bull market? Optimists point hopefully at the recent regulations on short sales, the flexible margin requirements, and wide discretionary authority vested in the SEC and the Federal Reserve Board. But as Mr. LeFevre points out in the current Saturday Evening Post, all of these panaceas may prove futile unless the unscientific income tax imposed on capital gains is repealed...
...that the presence of well-known men actively engaged in government administration and business gave to the conference an atmosphere of basic practicality impossible to obtain in purely academic circles. The free and frank discussion, completely off the record, of present problems was not only strongly stimulating, but a vital factor in dissipating many a befogged undergraduate and academic idea. The frank disagreement and resulting argument of Dr. Arthur E. Morgan, Chairman of the TVA, and Wendell L. Wilkie, President of the Commonwealth and Southern Corporation at the same round table on government and industry; the expose...
...completely unmoved. Here in its bluntest form is Harvard's increasingly troublesome dilemma: scholarship and teaching, may they somehow get together! The tutors as well as the instructors have been hit on this score, and some steps must be taken by the German department to recognize this ever more vital aspect of instruction...
...painstaking research, the report of the Student Council's Scholarship Committee deserves the attention of all who are connected with Harvard's student aid policy. In its mature interpretation of facts and data which cover the whole range of the scholarship question, the Committee has done the college a vital service and has shown, as well, the useful work of which the Council, when it exerts itself, is capable...
Although it is common knowledge that Harvard graduates have only 1.5 children every ten years, the vital statistics of girls' colleges are less well known. The average per graduate of Vassar and Bryn Mawr is about .8, of Mount Holyoke, about .7, and of Smith College, a little less than .6. No figures are available on Radcliffe...