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Though Britain's best educated youth are loath to enter the Church (average pay is ?400 annually: $2,000), there is no actual shortage of applicants. But there is a definite lack of funds to pay for their five to seven years of training. Hence the Church of England aims to distribute its clergy more evenly throughout its 13,775 parishes...
Between the three undergraduate publications at Harvard there exists a curious relationship. Each one is loath to acknowledge the accomplishments of the other two; each one is not unwilling to put on frivolous airs of superiority before the others. There is hardly a reason why this healthy situation should be interrupted; there is no cause for breaking up the badinage of innocuous derogations...
...course, the young lady who contributes to the Daily, and who is not loath to state just what her reactions are, may next time see fit to make the obvious retort to bachelorhood. But she must be warned that the last word is also obvious: 'Tis better to have loved and lost...
...House of Commons, His Majesty's Government managed to evade all direct questions. But the London Daily Herald, organ of the Labor Party, said what the Prime Minister was doubtless loath...
...solution of this problem is complicated by the fact that many students afflicted with troubles which psychiatry might alleviate would be loath to confide their difficulties. The deans and the proctors provide a certain amount of assistance, but in so far as psychoanalysis has become a complex art--hardly a science as yet--it is impossible for a layman to be of more than a nominal; assistance in most cases. Yale and Tufts, and several of the women's colleges have experimented with a mental hygiene department, to which those men are referred who failed badly in examinations...