Word: inertia
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...which is not to be interpreted as an attack on past administration of the Union. Much has already been done to bring it into the suggested position. At every turn however, it has been met by the inertia of the undergraduate body, by a lack of interest which might well warrant one in saying the average undergraduate is a callow person after all. Real interest on the part of the undergraduate body, which would result in a full and interested membership, taking some initiative from time to time, would undoubtedly do much to extend the influence and usefulness...
...entirely new Student Council. This is a decided change from the old system of ex office membership, and is therefore, an improvement. In past years, any accomplishment by a Student Council, such as those of the 1924 body, has been the exception to the general rule of absolute inertia, and has provoked incredulous comment from the amazed undergraduate. Like John Harvard, who until lately had never moved, the Student Council until this year had never acted...
...those whom the Council "represents"--in its own curious way. Yet the Council in, so acting would be merely fulfilling the University's expectations which have long since been shrivelled from lack of nourishment and even hope. For an impasse has been reached on rather a state of inertia, and there appears not even a Slayphus. Just as there is not one capable of stopping the seven o'clock bell there is probably no one capable of starting the Council...
...taken at early stages, and treated under ideal conditions, whereas, for 12 years, the "lime starvation" cure has arrested an average of 68%, taken at serious stages, and treated while patients continued to do their regular work. Mr. McCann asserts that the suppression of this cure reveals "the abysmal inertia of the medical profession with respect to a disease so clumsily and inefficiently attacked...
...them. Thus the visit of the Swedish Ballet, announced for the coming week, has had to be cancelled owing to lack of sufficient public response. We do not believe that this conclusively shows a lack of interest in the proposed visit, but is rather due to a certain lethargic inertia which kept people who would really have enjoyed seeing the company from making known that fact through the box office...