Word: laisser
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...they have a right to let students on such a scholarship basis waste college funds and equipment. It is the duty of the authorities to prevent just this sort of waste in those who stay in college. It is this duty, owing to principles of self-education, liberty, and laisser-faire, perverted to mean indifference to the needs of a large proportion of the student body, which has been sadly shirked...
...circumstances would not permit placing a man in his chosen House, he should be advised of the reasons, and allowed to petition for assignment to another. By this "laisser faire" method most men could acquire rooms which would be comparatively satisfactory to them. Owing to insufficient capacity, about ten percent of the applicants would have to be denied admittance to the Houses, even before failures eliminated others. This discrimination could best be made on a basis of academic standing, but here again the student should have the situation clearly explained to his satisfaction...
Suffering markedly by contrast are the laisser-faire systems of courses. In these no attempt is made to subordinate the whims of the highly individualistic section men to common standards, and the result is that men of identical merit and achievement receive widely different rewards within the precincts of the very same course. Clearly, then, in all courses making use of section meetings, the systems, of grading employed by History 1, or preferably that of Government 1 and Biology D, should be put into practice. By this universal extension of excellent principles, many minor but none the less annoying injustices...
...great majority of thinking men who viewed with intense disapproval the strangulation of foreign trade by a competitive tariff race, this doctrine of "intra-nationalism" will come as something of a shock. Before condemning it out of hand, they should recognize that the laisser faire economy in which the free traders proved their case is rapidly ceasing to exists. This country has embarked on a far-reaching program of national economic planning. It may be that the domestic adjustments of this program would be upset if our commodity and capital markets were open without restriction to foreign influences...