Word: vitallizing
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...believe that America and the world in general will accept the first alternative. But if we are to grasp the second alternative it must be at the cost of as much intelligent energy as is now applied to the higher but less vital activities of our civilization. While the college man cannot compete with the technically-trained man in the technical processes of production, he probably has a higher place in their ultimate direction. The man with the broad understanding of industry and human polity, not the specialist in one productive process, will devise the sweeping industrial reforms we need...
...fuel by dimming out lights. But, as the household, because it has the spirit, helps materially to prevent waste, so the student body can check needless consumption. We shall back up an actual physical profit by the knowledge of having done as much as possible to preserve the vital supplies of the nation...
What is the real and vital point in favor of the daylight-saving plan? The greatest argument is in its moral effect, and in its bringing home the war to each student. You read one Senior's communication about "sugarless and coal-less" days. Has the Harvard undergraduate ever economized in sugar or coal...
...undergraduate seems to have experienced a change of heart upon several matters. He has even discovered, much more generally than he had four years ago, a feeling of interest in questions of broad public moment. In subjects touching his personal future he has found certain issues of more vital concern than the mastery of the latest step in the fox-trot. It is easy to trace the sequence of cause and effect which has been at work here: The boys in our colleges have seen hundreds of their fellows go forth to an active share in the war. Most...
...Vital as these functions are, however, the Christmas membership is being conducted for the purpose of showing the man who is fighting that the men, women and children he is fighting for are solidly, aggressively back of him; that the morale of the folks at home is as high as the morale of the fighter in the field; and that their purpose is as patriotic and their determination as deep as his. Ten million new members of the American Red Cross will not leave a doubting United States fighting man--nor a doubting enemy...