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Over-application to certain Houses and the resulting inequitable distribution will not disappear, however, until the House stereotypes that cause them are destroyed. At the present rate, rather than dying out, the stereotypes cannot help perpetuating themselves. A student who enters a House hoping to find a party atmosphere, for example, will naturally help liven the festive air already there. Freshmen who dislike a House's label because they do not fit it will apply else-here. Housemasters, even those seeking varied composition, are largely limited to students who apply either as first, second, or third choice. So a House...
...states' judicial systems is the main reason for delay in the courts. In Queens County, N.Y., for example, it now takes 49 months for a jury case to come to trial in the state courts. Justice so long delayed can mean justice denied, as litigants die and witnesses disappear...
...kept alive and profitable. Papa Kroch, who got started in a store the size of a closet and once said that "a bookseller without a soul is but a ribbon clerk," is convinced that son Carl has the right idea: "It is a fairy tale that books will disappear. Books will remain and books will be read...
...major immediate danger is not that they will disappear, but that too few will major in them to keep their departments going, and that not enough students will enter teaching to sustain them in the future. The financial appeal of professions in the social and natural sciences underlies much of this danger. Business too often has demanded technically trained people though simultaneously mouthing approval of the humanities. Possibly a compromise between education and business could be worked out wherein business would assume much of the specialized training after graduation and depend on the colleges for more general, liberal instruction. Today...
...achieved by war. This applies equally to Communist and anti-Communist powers. Consider what is likely to happen in the first week of a world war. New York, Washington, London, and Moscow will probably be wiped out. All great states will disintegrate. Communism and modern capitalism alike will disappear...