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Word: inertia (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1910-1919
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...literature may be his humanizing hobbies. And the football player may be a grind as well as the scholar,--if he cannot see beyond the gridiron. But what shall be said of the remaining class, those who are neither "active" nor studious,--and that from their own choice or inertia...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE DOUBLE-TRACK, THE SINGLE, TRACK, AND THE PATHLESS DESERT. | 12/21/1915 | See Source »

Secondarily, it may be done by reaching those men who might enjoy chapel, if they realized its nature, but who, because of natural inertia, do not go at all or until late in their college careers. Under ordinary circumstances the plan of requiring the attendance of Freshmen at chapel once a week during the first two or three months of their course would be worth trying. It would hamper their freedom little, and might open the eyes of many. But the world that knows Harvard has grown very nervous in the last few years at the tendency toward paternalism...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE UNWISDOM OF COMPULSORY CHAPEL. | 4/2/1914 | See Source »

...perhaps because the benefits to be obtained from the compilation of careful and complete lecture notes are so obvious, that these benefits receive but little consideration. But whether this or mere inertia be the cause, there are at all events, men who utterly neglect note taking, and many whose notes are inadequate and merely perfunctory...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LECTURE NOTES. | 2/23/1911 | See Source »

Several half-hearted attempts were made this year to fulfill the above provisions, but it was found impossible to obtain a quorum and nothing was done. The result is that pure inertia and a fine disregard of duty on the part of the representative men making up the Council prevented the body from perpetuating itself, and, under its constitution, it has ceased to exist...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE END OF THE STUDENT COUNCIL. | 10/17/1910 | See Source »

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