Word: adams
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Arthur Eli Monroe '08: Monetary Theory Before Adam Smith. Dr. Monroe's book is a history of the theories rather than of the theorists of the time of Adam Smith...
...worth fifty cents, but at eight times that amount its desirability becomes questionable. And it would seem that once the pecuniary value of lectures and section meetings has become fairly fixed in the undergraduate mind the entire machinery of "cut pro" might be discarded as unnecessary. Modern man, says Adam Smith, is essentially economic; and he undoubtedly included college students in that category. All that is necessary to make the economic man act is to indicate clearly what course will profit him most pecuniarily; cutting of expensive lectures is not conducive to such profit...
Evolution, which in any way discredits man's descent from an original Adam, was ousted, root and branch, from the schools of North Carolina (TIME, Feb. 4). National controversy on this action produced the following defence...
...Road Together achieved a modern metropolitan record by opening and closing the same night. Playwright Middleton (author or collaborator of Polly with a Past, Adam and Eva, The Other Rose) objected to Marjorie Rambeau's "indifference" in performance; Producer Woods sustained his objection' and the play was withdrawn. The next day the Woods office discussed cancelling Miss Rambeau's $1,500 a week contract; she was incapacitated with, a, "nervous breakdown...
...Road Together achieved a modern metropolitan record by opening and closing the same night. Playwright Middleton (author or collaborator of Polly with a Past, Adam and Eva, The Other Rose) objected to Marjorie Rambeau's "indifference" in performing; Producer Woods sustained his objection and the play was withdrawn. The next day the Woods office discussed cancelling Miss Rambeau's $1,500 a week contract; she was incapacitated with a "nervous breakdown...