Word: vitals
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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This changes the form of the society in a vital respect and calls for careful consideration on the part of every man who wishes to see the society prosper...
...study of English assumed any prominence whatsoever. Fortunately, as the days of rigid curriculum work have become numbered, and as men have been allowed greater and greater freedom in shaping their work so as to supply the needs of to day, not of yesterday, the real and vital importance of this study has been recognized. That such a magazine as we propose to issue will be of value in preserving the best literary work here, and in exciting and stimulating interest in the composition of something of more than ephemeral worth, can hardly be doubted. The English department has assured...
...study in college are taught by a system of instruction from which the students' abilities to profit rests almost wholly upon his success in getting good notes at lectures, is it not all important that no expedient be left untried which can possibly aid him in this very vital part of his work? In a word, this note-taking, if I may be permitted the expression, is the wholesale industry of the college, and with this fact in view, I do not think any single addition to the present curriculum of electives would so materially increase the average standard...
...honor. If any form of unfairness, or meanness is tolerated in them, they become sources of wide-spreading moral corruption. If students do not find their sense of honor cultivated and refined by their college life, they may be sure that their education is failing at its most vital point...
Some of the speeches made at the dinner of the New-York Harvard Club touching as they do upon vital topics connected with the university, should interest all. The first gentlemen introduced by the president of the club, Mr. Charles C. Beaman, was President Eliot, who spoke of Harvard substantially as follows...