Word: inertias
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...students are so busy that the opportunity must remain closed to them; the main obstacles are laziness and intellectual torpidity. Possibly the University would do well to aid in overcoming student inertia by rewarding not only auditing but all forms of worth-while extra-course study; certainly, along with the American History Plan, auditing is potentially a means of furthering the ideal of the University-that every student shall receive a broad cultural training, shall "learn a new way of life...
Next product of Poet MacLeish's top-working was a radio-play-poem, The Fall of the City, broadcast in 1937. A radio-studio innovation, it presented Fascism as a spook-in-armor, stalking in on and taking control of a nation paralyzed by inertia, fear and propaganda. Few listeners-in agreed on the poetic merits of what the rather wild air waves had been saying, but most did agree that if Fascism should come to the U. S. it would come as a man, not a spook, agreed also that in The Fall of the City Radio-Play...
...leader writes: Bravery." But he does not gloat over the threatened exhaustion of the city or its extinction in war. There are in society powerful mutations of thought and art pointing to a healthy future, and though "it needs a terrific exertion of social force to overcome the inertia, to alter the direction of movement," Author Mumford throws his weight with them...
...brood is scattered throughout the world. Thus, except for a brief splurge at their twenty-fifth reunion, far too few of this brood can ever get back to the old Yard or the new Houses for a visit or renewal of contact with their Alma Mater; business pressure, distance, inertia, or a thin wallet sec to that. Yet it is vitally necessary that Harvard alumni do maintain a thread of contact with the University from year to year. This makes for a stronger Harvard, and for better graduates in the future. Furthermore, it gives graduates a chance to meet again...
Widener is one of the few libraries that permits loans for a months and this privilege is less a stimulus to study than an invitation to inertia. The normal student who has four weeks in which to note a few chapter headings, will ignore the work until about three days before the book is due. All but the more conscientious students of the more intricate volumes can complete the appointed task in two weeks. Those who cannot, may renew the book in the absence of demand. Their long and perhaps unnecessary trek to the delivery desk may be inconvenient...