Word: inertia
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...educational stockade which cheers us with the certainty that the world does move. What excites us at the moment is the report that a certain poet and scholar of our acquaintance has made a choice which if we were engineers we should calculate in the foot-pounds of inertia overcome--that is, if we were competent at dealing with large figures. This poet and scholar has long had the fate to be efficient in university administration: he could make one pink card do what two blue cards had done before; he could chart the careers of professors and plot...
...action cannot accomplish the necessary end for a variety of reasons; revolution directed by intelligent, class-conscious members of the proletariat is the only possible solution of the intolerable problem which faces the entire world. Wage-slavery, class divisions, capitalist oppression, all these must go into the discard; the inertia of the working class holds it from action; freedom can come, then only through the determined action of clear-sighted leaders who will bring about the revolution at the most opportune moment, gather together and verify the forces of the proletariat, and organize the new world of the basis...
...brilliant assembly of colleges and universities that Harvard joins when it plays its first game; the road to the top, however rough, is worth every effort. From a modest beginning, from the hard work of overcoming all inertia, the University looks forward to the possibilities of the future. Tonight the campaign for success opens in earnest when Harvard takes a definite place in the basketball world...
Altogether, then, the opposition is due rather to inertia against innovation than to anything in the proposition itself. But it is quite time that the authorities took cognizance of the feelings of the onlookers in this matter. It is only decent that we should make as comfortable as possible the public that takes so much interest in us; most of all we owe it to our graduates, who, though unable to follow the season closely, turn out loyally for the big games. Harvard should fall in line...
Altogether, then, the opposition is due rather to inertia against innovation than to anything in the proposition itself. But it is quite time that the authorities took cognizance of the feelings of the onlookers in this matter. It is only decent that we should make as comfortable as possible the public that takes so much interest in us; most of all we owe it to our graduates, who, though unable to follow the season closely, turn out loyally for the big games. Harvard should fall in line...