Word: vitalize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Japan's Army began its week of bungles by warning the French owners of the vital Haiphong-Yunnan Railway, which aside from the Burma highway is the last uninterrupted trade route into Southwest China, to stop supplying China within two weeks, or else have every bridge bombed...
...sample, bombers crippled the vital Eighty-Three Kilometre Bridge (just inside China's border) so badly that the whole line from Indo-China may be broken for a month. Tokyo hastened to hush up the warning over the Army's head...
...second major proposal of the Council is the integration of tutorial instruction into Harvard education. Tutorial instruction is necessary to make concentration something more vital than counting courses. But at present there is danger that the tutorial system is passing. This danger arises partly from problems of personnel which are not the direct concern of this report, but partly also from indifference on the part of students...
...neither so big nor so hungry. And, because it is even more undermanned, the U. S. Army is not so well organized as the Navy. Appropriations to bring the skeletal standing Army up to 227,000 men and 13,831 officers are still insufficient to flesh out vital corps organizations. At its new authorized strength of 235,000, the National Guard will be better for power, will still be undertrained and underequipped...
...interest in the theory behind any possible change. More and more is his own education becoming the subject of his thought and attention. To organizations around Harvard, a new field is opening. Inter-house debating should keep the question alive and hash out a problem which should be as vital to most undergraduates as their own courses. Other groups like the Student Union of Phillips Brooks, which have partly concerned themselves with education, should enlarge their activities towards this end even further. From the Boylston Chemical Society to the Council of Government Concentrators each has its own slant, each should...