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...Wagner-Ellender-Taft bill, favorably reported from committee but blocked by the inertia or hostility of Senate leaders, lies the single greatest boon to house building. It is not a public housing bill. It would act only as a stimulus to private enterprise. With a yearly cost of only $143,000,000, it could produce in ten years 15,000,000 dwelling units, of which only 500,000 would be public housing. The W-E-T bill would help provide homes that rent from $30 to $50 a month, a fact which causes landlords and realtors who are enjoying inflated...
...left to wonder . . . We have to reform our social habits, conquer our mental inertia, mercilessly throw away our pet customs and traditions before we can enjoy the fruits of science, before we can prepare against the growing dangers brought about by its constant unfoldings. Our airplanes . . . are supersonic, but our bodies are not yet supersonic. In such a world a dynamic, progressive, evolutionary, yet balanced, view of life is necessary for mankind...
...believes that private schools are threatened by their own "Seven Deadly Sins": snobbishness, bigotry, provincialism, reaction, smugness, stupidity and inertia. "If we do not open our doors to well-qualified applicants, regardless of financial status,* the Government may step in. . . . Exclusiveness, at least in a social sense, cannot persist much longer in our independent schools...
...concentrator are the demands of the pre-med, another department patron by necessity rather than by choice. Loath to duplicate the concentrator's heavy lab schedule, the pre-med must nevertheless abstract the meat of the fundamental courses and consequently asks for a tailor-made class. But department inertia and/or the lack of facilities have prevented the realization of a special course and, despite the success of its pre-war counterpart, no revival is in the offing...
...sheer inertia, the College has permitted the seven weeks' hurdle to carry over into a term in which it has manifestly become a nuisance. What is inertia now may become habit by fall--examinations are an historic vice of administration offices. At its next meeting, the Faculty should vote to abolish the seven weeks' rule...