Word: inertias
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...logical and most efficient body for the administration of Freshman activities; and that the elections should therefore be discarded. In ignoring this problem, the Council made a particularly serious mistake, for the leaders which emerge in the Freshman year regularly remain leaders throughout their four years because of democratic inertia, and in so far as they are illogically chosen the problem remains unsolved at its root. On the whole, however, the report is constructive, and its proposals should certainly go far toward improving Harvard politics...
Central figure of The Great Man Votes is a broken-down Harvard professor who, at the death of his wife, gives way to drink and inertia. An accident of ward politics makes this picturesque bum of crucial importance in a municipal election. How this situation affects him and his lively little son and daughter is revealed by Director Kanin with a maximum of warm, perceptive humor, a decent minimum of emotional climaxes...
...Labrador family can live on $350 a year, and it's not because of inertia. I've seen more inertia on Beacon Street in five minutes than I've seen in Newfoundland and Labrador in 20 years," he continued...
...wants to know what the chances are of starting a Fascist dictatorship in the U. S. That depends on the Americans, replies Thomas the Cynic. The Fascists' main advantage, he says, lies in the inertia of democratic leaders who tend to live "on the yield of their ancestors' conquests," are prone to be morally defeated before the fight begins. After a big crisis from which there is no return to the status quo, these leaders cannot hold power and Socialists are too timid or too weak to take it. Says the Cynic: Mr. W., there's your...
...becoming all too rare in this day of narrowness and specialization. Keenly absorbed by athletics, he served for many years on the Harvard Athletic Committee. His interest in community affairs, and his willingness to lead and take action in such matters which are often hampered by mass inertia, was outstanding. Although past 70 at the time, he was the first man to volunteer as a policeman in the Boston Police Strike. He played an instrumental part in the organization of the Cambridge municipal golf club. If all Harvard entertained such a sympathetic attitude toward the outside world, there would...