Word: archaicism
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...country's best collegiate football teams without overemphasizing (another S.I. unproved theory), it is time for President Griswold and his fellow executives in the Ivy colleges to reconsider the bans on spring practice and post-season individual play. This would be a graceful moment to drop these archaic circumscriptions against Ivy football players." One might add that this would be a graceful moment for the Ivy League to slide out of existence, with all of its goals lost...
What grist for the Protestant scandalmongers' mill! Everything that American Catholicism has stood for-separation of church and state, freedom of religion, a non-temporal clergy-is endangered by the stupid, archaic and "dog-in-the-manger" mouthings of these modern-day Savonarolas. This sort of thing is precisely what makes Protestants turn green at the gills and red in the face...
...pacifist '305, students called it "rot corps." But the Reserve Officers Training Corps on college campuses was the first training of a lot of the young officers of World War II. Now state university students are beefing again about ROTC and the U.S. Army's archaic training methods. University officials have an other objection: cost. The Government supplies the instructors and equipment, but the burden of administration and providing building space falls on the universities. This year four major universities-Cornell, Puerto Rico, Rutgers, Wisconsin-have dropped compulsory ROTC.* Others are thinking of doing...
...Louis, as in every big city, public education is big business, big money, and big temptations. The twelve-man St. Louis board has long been controlled by ward politicians, who value the patronage of 1,500 nonteaching jobs in the school system. St. Louis is also cursed with an archaic administrative system. Instead of a single superintendent, four coequal executives run separate departments of instruction, building, auditing and finance. This leaves the classrooms to the teachers and the money to the politicians...
...style restraints on monopoly. There are far too many subsidies supporting inefficient businesses, e.g., in the alcohol, sugar and flour-milling industries. Farms are often too small to reap the harvest of mechanization, and inefficient tenant farmers are kept in business by state grants. The food distribution system is archaic, encouraging low turnover and high profit margins. The report's solution : a telecommunications system to create a nationwide produce market in which prices can respond to supply and demand...