Word: inertia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President must submit to Congress his reorganization plan, which would become effective only if the House and Senate took no positive action against it within 60 days. Last week the President submitted his plan, to which the first Congressional reaction was uncertainty tinged with hostility. But for once Congressional inertia was on the President's side. No action would mean favorable action...
...certainly here "imaginings are...worse than the reality." There is, in the first place, a considerable inertia inducing men to eat in their own House. Any narrow eating club would find the discrepancies as to the members' 11 and 12 o'clock classes standing in the way of regular gatherings. And should a student fill his quota by being host, say, to three visitors on three occasions, he would find himself pressed financially unless he in turn were regularly invited out by his guests, an unlikely and inconvenient procedure. Inter-House eating was originally proposed by the CRIMSON...
...Conservatives with little or no detailed purpose remain in power through sheer inertia", declared Franklin D. Roosevelt '04, in an exclusive CRIMSON interview in the Parents' House at Groton yesterday afternoon. "My fight is with the leadership in this present crisis. I hope to have the support of all progressive thinking people of the nation in carrying this fight...
...Harvard Inquiry, which was organized last spring, is now a reality attempting to carry out the purpose for which it was destined at that time. Credit is due to the men who have fought the inertia and suspicion with which Harvard undergraduates generally protect themselves from new and radical intellectual organization. Although the Inquiry has not bad time enough to give an account of itself in practice it gives promise that it will stimulate the undergraduate to at least a recognition of the most important problems that face him as a citizen...
...mainly symptomatic and superficial. The basic shortcoming of the public schools is their lack of purpose. For the most part they are neither cultural nor vocational; they try to be both. There is no definition of the aims of the system. The whole situation betrays one weakness; the inertia of educators, who make very little attempt to diagnose the ills of their machine, and who are so lacking in decision as to be unable to make necessary reforms when glaring faults point to their own remedies. Until officials take the matter in hand, and decide why they are educating...