Word: vitalness
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...place in a living civilization. Public opinion has demanded that education should be more practical, that it should train men for increased usefulness in the nation. Modern languages, literature, science, history and economics -- we cannot even read the morning paper without utilizing them. Yet Latin rather lacks these vital, essential qualities, for seldom does a situation arise in modern life which requires its services. We live, not in the faraway days of Rome, but in the tumultuous and perplexing whirl of the twentieth century. We must prepare our young men to meet these complex conditions...
...system of citizen military education and training similar to the systems of Switzerland and Australia which will train every able-bodied male in the country, yet without making them a permanent burden upon the finances of the nation or taking them from their ordinary occupations or professions, is vital...
...midst of so many opinions upon the question of a change in the present club system, it is of pre-eminent and vital importance that the one paramount defect in that system be kept in mind, namely, the elective feature which makes possible and necessary the maintenance of 17 clubs with separate identities. It is this method of election which must bear the brunt of the attack...
...conclusions of the majority of those who undertake to judge Germany's submarine warfare. The proverbial American spirit of fair play would seem to warrant the application of a single standard of judgment to the conduct of the two belligerents whose present methods of warfare are affecting the vital interests of the United States on the sea. But if this attitude be taken, a resort to arms, by way of vindicating America's rights, is manifestly impossible, since we should be obliged to challenge practically the whole of Europe. Granting that Germany, by her submarine warfare, is contravening the principles...
...dangerous and difficult position as regards her relations to the belligerent powers of Europe. Not since the outbreak of the war has such spontaneous discussion about our country's next move been held among the undergraduates of Harvard. The large majority have suddenly realized this shameful ignorance of the vital questions of principle and policy that the leaders of the government are facing today. It is unfortunately the exceptional student who knows definitely whether Germany has the legal right to sink American ships should diplomatic relations be severed between the United States and that country. Only a very few have...