Word: vitallizing
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...primary purpose of the Conference is to provide a natural opportunity for men from the different colleges to meet for an unhurried consideration, in especially agreeable surroundings, of the vital significance of Christianity for the colleges and for the college man in his various callings. The daily program includes two meetings of all the delegations, group classes for Bible study, mission study, or the study of social problems, and larger group conferences on life work. The afternoons are given over entirely to recreation; an intercollegiate baseball series, a tennis tournament and a track meet are among the diversions arranged...
...support which they have received from graduates of the University. The opera is not a light amusement but an educational force; it is a composite art and appeals to the higher qualities of the listener. In spite of the commercial spirit of this age, the opera will have a vital growth in the future, and it is only commercial power which can provide operatic productions...
Interclass debating is a form of intellectual contest that existed some years ago, but which has now entirely disappeared. The plan of the Advisory Committee is broadly to arouse undergraduate enthusiasm for debating and to render it of more vital interest to a larger number of students than have hitherto participated in any form of argumentation. This scheme of interclass debates, with cups for the members of the winning teams, deserves the heartiest support of all those who believe that debating should maintain a time-honored place among our beneficial "outside interests and activities...
...Aristophanes were happy thoughts suddenly conceived, and it is generally possible to pick out the line which shows the writer's inspiration. Emphasis should be placed on the resemblances and not the differences between that age and the present. That period had the same questions of courts, of vital social conditions, and to a large extent it had the same customs...
...adviser cannot recognize in the Yard the advisee whom in September he so cordially "welcomed"-and forgot. In their fear of appearing too patronizing, the Seniors have refrained from "chasing up" these men, apparently at cost of losing touch with them altogether. The relation should be a real and vital...