Word: laissez
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...physical training is not meant to bear all its fruits during the Freshman year. Colleges which have tried it have found that a far greater number of their students have turned out for athletics during their last three years with compulsion during the first year, than under a strictly laissez-faire policy. Men who have never partaken in any sports or games in their school days will be drawn into them in college and will be able to enjoy them and profit by them throughout life. The spectacle of clever and talented men needlessly stricken with physical disability...
...number of years of experimentation with the "laissez faire" system of athletics has proved that only a few men benefit from active participation. It seems impossible to change the habits of men except by some form of compulsion. Those who go out for athletics during their Freshman year will generally continue the practice throughout their undergraduate lives, but those who do not are rarely if ever induced to do so by any measure short of compulsion. Hence, if some form of exercise is enforced upon Freshmen it is probable that they will continue the habit thus formed during the rest...
...specialization will give a college man that subtlety of mind and ease of adjustment which a wider distribution seeks to accomplish. We question whether a one-track mind would not result, an intellect which has but one interest and one accomplishment. What the University seeks to develop by its laissez faire policy is the versatility of mind which will embrace many fields, which eagerly gives ear to new opinions, which analyses, and holds dear its criterion of right and wrong...
...trend of modern social evolution has experienced a great change in the last generation. The laissez-faire doctrine and the highly developed individualism of 30 years ago have given way to a new conception of society. Already gaining headway before the war, it has now expanded into the greatest force in human relations. There is no more certain sign on earth than the modern tendency toward a more communistic and socialistic organization of every nation's life...
...unfavorably affected. Manufacturers of and dealers in non-essentials have been very active in obstructing much-needed regulation and in opposing economics which are absolutely necessary. Advertising sheets, commonly called newspapers, have persistently fostered the vicious idea that there are no non-essential industries, and have successfully defended a "laissez faire" policy with respect to their own profiteering. There have also been strikes and threats of strikes on the part of various labor organizations, even against the better wisdom and advice of their national organizations...