Word: vitals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...William J. Bingham '16. Director of Athletics. Perhaps most interesting of the lot is a re-printed essay by the late Le Baron R. Briggs '75, entitled "Harvard and the Individual." This was first published in the Boston Transcript in 1903, but its subject is one that is as vital today as, when it first appeared. There is also an interesting article on "Habits, Customs, and Manners at Harvard," by William 1. Nichols '26, former Assistant Dean and Publicity Director of the University...
...international audience? Are Harvard and Oxford so secluded from the world, so steeped in the academic cloister, that they can find no more fundamental problem to argue? Such a triviality may serve for a literary tea, but so important an event as the Harvard-Oxford debate merits a more vital subject. Harvard and Oxford hold a significant position in both America and Great Britain. Their common spirit of friendly inquiry and intelligent criticism should find play in such a contest...
...United States and Great Britain should immediately act to stabilize the dollar and pound sterling" is eminently debatable, of great public interest and important enough to merit the serious attention of the representatives of two great universities. Indications are that the debate will not take place unless some such vital question is discussed...
...Ambassadors. But Mr. Grew has leaned on this vital prop less than any predecessor. The Embassy is Grew, suave but adventurous "Tiger" Grew. Poker is his game. Japanese music and Japanese flower arrangement are the hobbies of Mrs. Grew, a granddaughter of Japan-opener Commodore Matthew Perry...
...Teachers cannot build a new social order, as some people would have them do. On the other hand, teachers cannot remain aloof from current realities if their teaching is to be at all vital and significant. Teachers ought to teach what they believe to be the truth on all questions where the community as represented by the School Board has not expressly forbidden them to teach. Teachers can be much more aggressive in teaching the truth on all matters about which the community has not crystallized an opinion than they commonly...