Word: vitalness
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...nations of the world, it did accomplish one great thing, the establishment of a permanent court which makes it improbable in the highest degree that civilized nations will go to war without first using every other possible resource, and unless the problems at issue are of fundamental and vital importance. That the concert of Europe had for some purposes at least grown into a sort of federation of the world, is seen by the fact that while at the first Hague Conference, but 26 of the 59 sovereign powers of the world were represented, at the Hague Conference...
...February number the Monthly ly has found itself. After months of laborious mediocrity, it has brought out an issue that is brilliant, fresh, vital, human; unified by a definite ideal of social progress firmly based on a pervasive sense of reality; above all, jubilantly young. At times the Monthly has seemed to stumble in premature senility; in this number it is light afoot, and fine with the virtues and the faults that we all like to claim as belonging essentially to youth...
...various buildings and are able to exercise judgment in their choice of rooms. On the other hand, men coming to Harvard from, places so far away that conditions here are not known and understood are at a decided disadvantage. An agreeable room is not a matter of vital importance but it has a great deal to do with the enjoyment and satisfaction to be had from college life, particularly in the Freshman year...
...University best able to give expert opinions on the question. Since it will be necessary for the members of 1912 to come to a decision in the very near future as to whether or not they will room in the Yard next year, it is of vital importance that they be absolutely familiar with the conditions that will prevail. Many changes have already been made to improve the rooms in the Yard and many more are promised before next fall. All these will be discussed this evening. The opportunity to learn the facts of the case from such good authority...
...more desolate pictures are presented to our somewhat apathetic eyes than that afforded by the appeals of the permanent officers of the Senior class, who, though elected by the class, often lack its support. Charged by their classmates with certain necessary and vital duties, they have in past years been forced by the irresponsibility and procrastination of some members of the class to issue frequent and monotonous notices that the Class Lives are not yet complete or that pledges have not been returned by an even respectable proportion of the class...