Word: inertia
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...wish to call to mind once more that the bonuses from the Government are on the way to most of the men in College, and that the practice of thrift is never to be regretted. If the Freshmen will arouse from their state of inertia and pay up the pledges made at their mass meeting last Monday, the end of the drive will be in sight. We have no doubt that the payment of this obligation will be performed, and in such circumstances the University will be in a position to oversubscribe the quota. Let every one audit...
...some spiritual region in which he can do as he likes, some land of little things where he may be delivered from the tyranny of the long arm." This reflection may invite more appreciation in England, where tradition and time-honored custom have established a political and social inertia reasonably impervious to radical pressure, than in America, whose institutions are not similarly encrusted. However, herein lies a possible indication of our own proneness to talk and act nonsensically. College men especially are wont to search out the humorous elements in a serious situation, and their enjoyment in raillery is noticeably...
...halt the extremists of pacifism. If those who would not have our nation prepared to meet the demands of war hold an ideal which refuses sanction to such qualities as the regiment has developed in Harvard men what is their ideal worth? Can it foster anything else but Inertia? The regiment, on the other hand, was the embodiment of ideals linked with real forces. It showed that it had begun to effect that co-ordination of moral with physical might which has won all the world's battles, whether in war or in peace. It defied the degeneracy of inertia...
...Herrick is perfectly right in his contention about the power of the Athletic Committee. No difficulty is insurmountable as long as that body "has authority to regulate all sports." But in the present situation, that is not the issue. Are we going to allow this power to die through inertia, and hope the necessity for its resurrection may never come, and that it will, never be appealed to, or shall we insist on a closer relation between authority and responsibility...
...permanent acquisitions has made the Fogg Museum doubly effective in its cultivation of the appreciation of true art. Mr. Sachs points out a field here which might well prove stimulative to more than the usual devotees of art. Too often exhibits are neglected by the students through pure inertia and ignorance...