Word: allisons
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...Answers Elisabeth Allison, who is "head section person" (teacher) for Harvard's EC 10: "When the economy is in bad shape, people are interested-and, boy, are they ever interested!" At the University of California at Berkeley, where enrollment in undergraduate economics courses is up 15% to 20%, Professor Albert Fishlow offers a similar explanation: "Food price increases have brought home to everyone the need to understand inflation." Smith College is another school trying to make economics understandable. The result: This year, one in every two Smithies is or has been enrolled in the basic course...
According to William C. Allison of Wellesley Hills, general chairman, the Fair will attract 50,000 exhibitors, performers and spectators from eight states...
Students interviewed yesterday tended to agree with Allison's rationale and freshmen frequently cited good comments from upperclassmen about Ec 10 as a reason for taking the course...
...unexpectedly large turnout has presented Allison and Eckstein with difficult logistic and staffing problems. "I have called book publishers all along the East Coast trying to get more texts," Allison said...
...Allison said that the course's enrollment would "absolutely not be restricted." She added that she will find enough rooms and teaching fellows to accommodate all students without increasing section size...