Word: dulled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...well-intentioned idea, but it did not provide The Reporter's reporters with a plain or specific journalistic target, and the first issue showed it. Almost half of the 36-page issue was devoted to a leisurely, dull analysis of President Truman's program for developing the world's backward areas. The rest of the articles ranged from a talk with an Iowa farmer to an essay on the Adamses of Massachusetts. Future issues will also be devoted to one political or economic "symphonic theme," such as civil rights, cotton...
...years as the Golden Boy of the squad on the lecture platform; he gives a course in Problems of Federalism--though not next year--and has taken over the entire management of 155, the industry regulation course. This has resulted in higher-voltage lectures coupled with the same old dull reading...
...criticism of reading applies pretty much through the section. Gov. 135, the Party Government course--not being given this year or next--has been handled by various people pretty well, but the reading is the same old stuff you got in Government 1. Lambie's municipal government course features dull, solid lectures, as do Hanford's offerings...
Honors candidates should plan to take Economics 101. While occasionally dull, this course seems improved over previous years, and it has the advantage that it is marked on the assumption that everyone is an honors candidate, which means that few marks are given out below the B minus level...
...prerequisite for or must be taken simultaneously with every course in the Department. Other key courses are Economics 141, which gives excellent coverage of both practical and theoretical aspects of money, finance, and fiscal policy; Economics 161, a study of business organization and control which is sometimes dull but always thorough; and Economics 181a and b, which gives a good presentation of labor problems. While less essential, courses on the Economics of Socialism, the Economy of the United States, Business Cycles, International Trade, and Public Finance are also good...