Word: vitalize
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...unwise and should be reversed; but I think we can do still better than to return to the old policy of supporting minor teams by subscriptions, sometimes with and sometimes without the help of allowances from the Athletic Committee. May not this uncertain and fluctuating financial support be the vital reason we have been seeking for the persistent inferiority of some of our minor teams, and the uphill fight the others have had to wage in order to make a showing creditable to the University? The suggestions I wish to make look toward a fairer and more businesslike...
Professor Palmer, in his address, strongly advocated Bible study as a pursuit of the greatest value to college men. The reasons on which he based its value were the necessity of keeping in touch with one of the most vital forces in all history and the world today; the power of the Bible as a teacher of beautiful literary style; the importance of being informed of the present vigorous research regarding its sources: and the very great value of the Bible as a stimulus to the deepest and truest religious life...
...Wagner 1L., Grossman, winning the Coolidge prize. M. Hale '03, S. Blaikie '03, and E. M. Rabenold, was chosen alternate. The debate was held on Monday, March 23, before a large audience in Sanders Theatre. The University speakers won chiefly by better massing of argument upon vital issues and by considering the question from a broader point of view. Mr. Bliss Perry presided at the debate, and the judges were president Pritchett of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Provost C. C. Harrison of the University of Pennsylvania and Dr. Arthur L. Brown of Providence, U. S. district judges of Rhode...
...Harvard speakers presented their case with greater clearness and better emphasis than did the Yale men, and argued upon more vital points. The Yale team laid much stress on rather visionary difficulties. Harvard's central claim of absolute justice on the part of the European power they scarcely attempted to meet...
...served us so well for centuries. We agree with the affirmative that justice should be done; no nation in the past had trouble in collecting just debts in South America. We should permit punishment by other methods and resources, but never by the seizure of land which is the vital part of every country's existence. If one specific claim is allowed under these six conditions, no line can be drawn; other claims will be exacted and it will end in European aggrandizement to the detriment of the United States...