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Dates: during 1930-1939
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From the nature and aims of the field it is obvious that it might better be entitled Political Economy, for every course tends to emphasize the fact that economics cannot be separated from politics. Through full courses on various special subjects like Public Finance and Utilities a broad survey of the subject is attempted, and although each course is designed to include the major problems existent today, it is of course impossible for them to provide the answers. Thus, the field does not intend to offer practical value--in the narrow vocational sense, since it feels that practical training should...
...basic courses in theory Economics 1 is much better than the half year course 2a, but it is open only to honors candidates. Professor Chamberlin lectures excellently in course 1, but there is still need for a half course such as 2a. Nearly all the advanced courses will be found worth while, but they cannot all be taken and must be chosen with the interests and the special field of the concentrator in mind. Course 21a was blamed for wasting the effort of Professor Frickey, for students claimed the material could be covered in less than a mouth...
English 10--Whiting better than Magoun. A key course for Divisionals and lets people who dislike Chaucer avoid Chaucer...
...Committee for the Defense of Leon Trotsky-Author Adamic has stuck to his wary code. As a "New American" this wariness has undoubtedly simplified his life. As a writer, it is sometimes a handicap. He is most interesting when he writes about experiences where he got involved. He writes better, for example, about a girl hitchhiker he picked up than about John L. Lewis; better about Manhattan radical-intellectuals as personalities than about their role as intellectual counter-parts of the McNamara dynamiters; better about Slovenian peasants than about C. I. O. The letters written to him by a Hollywood...
...seven average and better than average mystery stories published last month, three stood out as best bets. In order of merit...