Word: commonness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Though economics stands mid-way between two cultures, it is its similarity to the natural sciences that causes the greatest problems. Professional economics shares with the sciences an analytic technique "remote from the common experience of the layman and a language that is principally mathematical," to use the words the Bruner Committee applied to the natural sciences. And to judge from the current trend this will become increasingly...
...Industrial Organization, and Ec. 181--Industrial Relations, cover the major areas of the field and at least two of them are necessary to handle Generals well. A real core program where all concentrators would progress from one level of the next has many advantages; it provides a common background which the lecturer can assume, gives a common training, and insures that a student will not neglect a vital aspect of the field. But it also has disadvantages, the primary one being the difficulty of handling non-concentrators who have not had this core. Separate sections in a course might...
...Yale Russian Chorus will sing in the Winthrop House Junior Common Room Sunday at 3 p.m. Ford Foundation funds will pay for the concert, Master David E. Owen announced yesterday...
...plight of the newcomers is one which Mrs. Rupert Emerson feels quite strongly. Both she and Mrs. Fainsod pointed out that the Faculty wife serves as an informal settling agent. At newcomer's teas, the most common question put to the "old guard" is where one can find a good pediatrician. The vast problem of helping the newcomers find housing and friends takes up some of their time...
James Joyce harbored throughout his life a compulsive need to feel himself betrayed. Perhaps it helped him to maintain his chosen stance of lonely, lofty defiance of the "trolls," as he called the common...