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...necessary requirement. None of the elementary courses in these fields stimulates the student to think scientifically, and the laboratory periods are definitely not conducive to such thinking. Very often this is due to poor assistants who are put in charge of the laboratory sections and to the lax manner in which the courses are run. The first difficulty can be met by placing men well-qualified in their field in charge of laboratories. The second difficulty is probably attributable to the large number of Freshmen who are registered in these courses. No special consideration, however, should be given them...
...lives were lost, 700 tattered moppets marched down to the City Hall bearing banners: "We Don't Want'to Burn to Death." Under New York law a tenement is any building housing three families or more. But to a New Yorker tenements mean those built under the lax laws existing prior to 1901. All but four of the 48 deaths in recent tenement fires occurred in "old law" buildings of which New York City has 67,000, most of them dating back to the Civil War. One-half of them are equipped with rusty vertical ladder escapes long...
Gill has recently been undergoing a hearing in the presence of Governor Ely to determine Whether the Charges of Francis X. Hurley '24, State Auditor, that Gill was operating Norfolk under too lax penal regulations, were true. At the trial, Ely was convinced of the invalidity of Hurley's charges...
...growing relaxation of parietal control, and it leads, as is proper, to the placing of greater responsibility on the undergraduate. Probation has always had an inherent resemblance to the hickory switch and the dunce's stool, the trappings of Tom Brown education. Its disciplining fear softens the student too lax to depend on his own morale. Its interference with extra-curricular activities dates back to those harsh eras of compulsory chapel and the sideburn...
...peril. But it becomes a little wearying to find the eminent journalist, Mark Sullivan, spawning article after article with but one theme: that the Administration has two wings of opinion, one right, one left; that the Right has a monopoly over the good, the true, the beautiful but is lax in asserting its eminence; and that the Left is composed of young radical professors who combine fluttery, unsound minds with amazing, sinister shrewdness in hypnotizing the President. It appears that Rex Tugwell, for one, "has studied the recent revolutions in Europe painstakingly and knows the technique of carrying America from...