Word: laisser
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...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...
...down a revolution, and why should not Washington and London help? In so far as the U. S. State Department made any reply, it was intimated to correspondents that unless U. S. lives or property should be endangered by the newest Chinese civil war, the Hoover policy would be laisser faire...
...outside. It is quite a pity that with all the strength on his side, as shown by the House's vote against Salter, the Premier could not have shown more spirit in the matter either by declaring himself in favor of a cleaner Commons or of a strict laisser-faire policy in regard to the personal rights of the Members of Parliament. Instead, he merely decried the fact that news of the existing exhilaration of various members should soil the name of the House, thereby giving one reason to wonder just what he thought to be done about it anyway...