Word: shirkers
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...Under the Townsend Plan a diligent shirker with a living mother and father, both 60 years old or more, would be able to retire permanently and support his own rising brood of government guests on the monthly income of his old parents, which would amount to $100 a week. His wife, too, might have living parents also receiving their $400, and on $800 a month the old people would be able to do very well for themselves, their children and their grandchildren...
...shirker is square-faced Count Yasuya Uchida, until last week Japan's Foreign Minister. Thrice Foreign Minister in his prime, he was 67 and getting deaf last year when his Emperor called him back to gloss over Japan's Manchurian grab. Then he resigned as president of the South Manchuria Railway, a post that carried leadership of all Japanese interests in Manchuria, to direct the cocky demonstration of Japan's "right to Manchuria." By last week the Manchurian job was done and Count Uchida resigned to give way to a younger Foreign Minister, Koki Hirota, onetime Ambassador...
America is the paradise of the shirker and the drifter who goes to college...
...football, pleasure and leisure mad undergraduate. Before many the academic muse can only gape, sigh, and pass on. For these even the shining example of France is of no avail. All that is left to those who scorn the battle of the books is the "paradise of the shirker and the drifter". An examination, of this paradise would be interesting. To the casual observer it might well be summarized by a rough sketch depicting Don Juan in a raccoon skin coat walking celestial streets of gold. However, to one conversant with undergraduate life such a mythical place would probably contain...
...case of Seniors it will be extended, no doubt, to the entire student body. And why shouldn't universities make the attempt to place a premium upon brains in this way? Students who maintain high rank give an institution very little trouble. It is the dunce and the shirker who make it necessary for colleges to maintain an array of deans and other disciplinary officials. There is something to be said, therefore, for the doctrine that the better a student's rank in his studies the less he ought to be charged for his instruction. At any rate the Yale...