Word: vitalizer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...believe in the Virgin Birth?" "I should not say that the belief is a vital part of faith. ... It is a historical question which must be judged on historical evidence...
...absolutely nothing effective is now done, the Executive Board of the proposed Bureau will tread new ground. Each member of the Executive Board will visit the men on his list at monthly intervals to make suggestions for new programs, assist in difficult situations and reassign men obviously misplaced. The vital importance of this individual work cannot be too heavily stressed. It will be supplemented in occasional general meetings of volunteers to hear visiting speakers and to engage in organized round table discussion...
...provision for readjustments guarantee a maximum of efficient service to the institutions to which men are sent. Third, the greater attention to the conduct of the opening meeting and the preparation of volunteers make an effort to utilize adequately the enthusiastic idealism that is the first and most vital force in the social activity of the individual student. Whether or not this plan, if it is put into effect, will succeed, will depend in the same way that all such enterprises depend, on the vigor, and intelligence, and vision of those who come to administer it. Given these three prerequisites...
...sharply criticized is its failure to convey an adequate impression of the broad general significance of all social service to prospective workers. The undergraduate--usually an underclassman--goes to the committee's open meeting in the fall, and hears nothing but luke-warm banalities from amateurs. Instead of vital information from recognized authorities, he is given unintelligent generalities by local celebrities in other fields. The meeting degenerates into a series of amiable but perfunctory talks, and the enormous reservoir of idealistic enthusiasm that moved the audience to attend is left utterly untapped...
...Social Service Committee is doing an extremely limited part of its proper work well. It is leaving entirely undone almost everything that might convert undergraduate social work-at present anaemic and ineffective--into a living and vital force both in the college itself and in the larger community...