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Radcliffe girls don't like exercise. They don't like archery, sailing, bowling, body mechanics, or modern dance. Given a chance, most of them would shirk their two years, two hours a week of athletics. This, at least, is what Radcliffe gym authorities suspect. To make athletics requirements escape-proof, the Gym Department has plugged loopholes so thoroughly that even the more athletic girls suffer...
...government headquarters, nodded unblinkingly to an assembly of 200 of Nationalist China's remaining leaders-cabinet members, generals, governors of China's lost provinces and four former mayors of Shanghai. "At this critical moment," came the clipped tones of the Gimo's native Chekiang, "I cannot shirk my responsibility." He added optimistically: "I do not have any doubt that we will recover the mainland, that the Communists will be crushed . . ." That afternoon, the Generalissimo and Madame Chiang received a thousand guests at a tea celebrating the Gimo's return to office...
...Pope listed four principles for a Catholic judge to follow: 1) He "cannot shirk responsibility for his decisions and place the blame on the law and its authors. When he delivers a sentence in accordance with the law, the judge becomes an accessory to the fact and therefore is equally responsible for its results." 2) The judge "can never pass a sentence which would oblige those affected by it to perform an intrinsically immoral act . . ."3) "Under no circumstances can a judge acknowledge and approve an unjust law . . . Therefore he cannot pass a sentence that would be tantamount to approval...
...college, John W. Taylor* insists, should have two student bodies: one on its campus and one in its community. After 18 years of teaching and administration (at Columbia and Louisiana State University), he was convinced that most U.S. colleges shirk their civic responsibilities. When he became president of the University of Louisville three months ago, he decided that he would not make their mistake. "We're here to bring academic information to the sons and daughters of Louisville," he said, and set to work on a plan to give a college education to every Louisvillian who wanted...
...reasons. Yet, if the quality of teaching is to rise (360,000 teachers have not gone beyond the college sophomore level) it is precisely these educated people who must be attracted and held. The states are responsible for education, but mere historical precedent cannot allow the Federal government to shirk a financial role any longer. For education, unlike bridges or garbage disposal units, cannot be used or misused by any one state isolated from the other 47. Not only do millions move from one state to another, carrying with them their educations, good or bad, but the sum total...