Word: unfitness
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...Manhattan, at a symposium in connection with an exhibition of "international style" architecture (TIME, Feb. 22) Lewis Mumford, famed author-critic, spoke up last week and said U. S. architects are "unfit to build houses for the America of the future unless they are able to plan as if working for a Communist government." Amplification of his remark was less dramatic. He explained that he meant the building of the future will be large-scale slum reclamation and large-scale cheap housing rather than work for the choosy individual...
...hint of the course the Hitlerites may pursue if they come into power in Germany was given recently in a speech by a party member to a group of Nazi medical men. Suppression of the "inferior" races of the republic, banishment of the Jews, wholesale sterilization of the "unfit," and other measures to insure Teutonic supremacy are part of the program. The fact that the Germans, for all their race consciousness, are far from being a pure stock, evidently did not occur to the speaker...
With a quota set for each district, it is clear that in order to make up the required number, unfit men often must be admitted else the group will be incomplete. In either case this is unfair to a man of ability who may be excluded because the men from his locality have been chosen. A more progressive plan has been adopted at Harvard where men from districts that ordinarily do not prepare for Harvard are admitted if they rank in the first seventh of their class, and other requirements are satisfied. Here is an unqualified selective process...
...report of the Board of Admission. If states that the classical basis was first modified in 1904, when alternatives to a knowledge of Greek were first allowed. Though conceding that Latin has in the past performed "yeoman service" in the capacity of disciplinarian and wooder-out of the mentally unfit, the report contends that the removal of the Latin requirements at this time is not "letting down the bars" to slipshod scholarship. Rather, it is said, the resulting increase in the number of eligible applicants will make competition keener and standards of scholarship higher...
...House Plan as it is here at Harvard, and as it will be at Yale. Save for the educational benefits, which the editors of the Hoot insist on regarding as accidental by-products, the entire system is denounced as a waste of money and a "pandering to the unfit and immature...