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...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...
...world crisis, which is no longer only economic but is now above all spiritual and moral, should not bring about a state of inertia. Advance! The greater the obstacles, the greater must be our will to overcome them. Forward...
...influence of the Communists in America, in spite of conditions favorable to their activities, is noticeably weak. While their friends in Russia are overcoming the inertia of centuries of aristocratic incompetency, they hurl insults and repeat the old catchwords which have a strong emotional glamor, but, when they stand alone, no definite meaning. When they are permitted to harangue bystanders, Communist orators quickly exhaust their supply on invectives, and only the arrival of the police can make their demonstrations interesting even to the most bitter opponents of capitalism...
...season to a reasonable number of good plays they would almost certainly be patronized more generously than at present. The decline of play-going in New York seems to have paralyzed the nerve of the producers. That is easily understood, but the situation will certainly not be remedied by inertia. It grows more and more evident that the future of the stage depends on the revival of the road and the spread of the subscription idea. If Boston, among other cities, could count on a schedule of intelligent plays, it would almost certainly respond. At least it would...
...many and beclouded issues of the preliminary arguments caused an inactivity which was prolonged with the coming of the House Plan. Annoyed by this inertia it was finally decided to apply the panacea and build the chapel. The confusion of the present opposition to the chapel is not so great that it can not still be organized into a strong phalanx and directed at the vital spot...