Word: vitals
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...athletic association is urgent in its demands for a level running track of a third or quarter of a mile in extent, in place of the present inclined fifth of a mile. The foot-ball men, and the whole college on their behalf, say that it is of vital importance that they should have a good enclosed field in which to play matches. The base-ball men recall the throngs of people who see all their games on Jarvis field, as contrasted with the few hundreds who are occasionally public spirited enough to pay their way to the benches. Then...
...HARVARD HERALD: Now that the mid-years are almost upon us, the old question about heating Massachusetts again comes up. Past experience has shown that, heretofore, all efforts in this direction have proved of no avail. Is it impossible to heat the building? This is certainly a matter of vital importance to the students who are to have examinations there. In all probability the weather will be very cold during the time of the examinations and the dreary thought of sitting three hours in that ice-house is certainly not encouraging...
...unanimity and unreservedness of the praise bestowed by the newspaper press, for three successive seasons, on the New London managers, is something entirely singular and unique in American aquatic annals. That praise would never have been won, however, had not those managers accepted at the outset, as a vital rule for their guidance, the theory that, in a college rowing contest on the Thames, a single race between two crews is the most that may be safely attempted within the limits of a single day. The experience of three seasons have simply served to strengthen them in that theory. They...
...assured that any further exertion in its behalf, other than that expended in the regular courses, would be unnecessary; while the instructors of Greek, on the other hand, realize that an animated sympathy with Greek, - such a sympathy as must come from something more than routine work, is of vital importance? It is true, that of late years there has been considerable doubt in some colleges, as to the advisability of retaining Greek in their curricula. The Greek department of Harvard, in determining to have Greek readings throughout the collegiate year, seem to have taken the wisest method possible...