Word: condemnations
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...writer of your critique on Economics, which appeared in last Friday's issue, used rather strong language when he stated, with Olympian finality, of Economics A that "undergraduate opinion almost unanimously would condemn the course as dull to the point of stupidity, uninspiring, and relatively uninstructive." The lame loophole provided by the insertion of the word "almost" cannot exempt the article from considerable criticism...
...condemnation of your contributor embraces both subject mater and the quality and method of instruction. To condemn the subject matter is ridienlous. Who can read Robertson, Henderson, Taussig, and Slichter, without being inspired to at least an appreciation of his own ignorance of economics and the greater ignorance of the subject in the outside world? Much more can be claimed for the subject matter, especially when one considers the instruction to be gained, instruction which would grace the doubtful hale of many business men, public administrators, and legislators...
That Economics A should be the introductory course in the field is an unfortunate if unavoidable fact. Undergraduate opinion almost unanimously would condemn the course as dull to the point of stupidity, uninspiring, and relatively uninstructive. Leaders in the de- partment have replied to the writer's criticism that the lecture system is incapable of giving the student a firm and realistic grip on the difficult problems of economic theory. They point to past experience for support. With unconcealed sense of martyrdom they explain how and why the lecture system was abandoned in the past. The fact remains, however, that...
This action was taken as the result of the report made a week ago by an inspector of the Massachusetts Department of Public Safety in which a threat was made to condemn the building unless the fire hazard is reduced. University officials have stated that because of the present general financial conditions no extensive repairs are contemplated at this time...
...economic evils called The Voice of Young America (Scribner- $1.00). Said he: "I'm not a radical like Corliss Lamont. I'm a capitalist, but not their kind. I can see a lot more peril from the right wingers than from the left. I don't condemn people who have earned their wealth by giving something in return. Henry Ford is one of those. But I call 'privocrats' those who become rich through the exploitation of public monopolies. . . . That shot, now, applies to people like the Rockefellers...