Word: ec
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...economic problems. But the general reader, in order to understand what all the argument is about, must first be well acquainted with a forbidding amount of technical jargon. It is precisely the serious but uninitiated reader who will be most easily confused by a barrage of professional patois. After Ec A, Professor Hansen's latest book would be easy sailing. Unfortunately, most Congressmen have never undergone even that much introductory training...
...this group, which Ec A instructors would refer to as the marginal students, that may be forced to withdraw from college if no new financial avenues are opened. These are the men who would never have planned to come to college at all without Government assistance and who have all along relied on working to pay part of their way. They are particularly hard hit because their wages, like their allotments, do not buy as much as they once did. And a student cannot take on ever increasing hours of work and remain even a reasonable facsimile of a scholar...
...present, all of the reserve books for Ec A have been transferred to the Union Library on the second floor while two-thirds of the volumes for History 1 and Gov 1 are in a room nearby with the prospect of being reinforced with the remaining ones...
...Humanities 1a. He shuddered when he thought of those other years when he had wandered around in the catalogue, sometimes looking for something big, sometimes for a skill to be learned. But usually the literature or philosophy courses were too narrow or taught in monotones, and the Gov and Ec was too specialized, or somehow irrelevant to his own thinking. They seemed to have no roots. He had stumbled upon General Education. He liked it. There were roots and there were teachers who seemed anxious to teach. It made him wish he had it to do all over again...
...depend on this book by the Financial Editor of the "New York Times" for aid on that Ec A final. Mr. Hazlitt is one of those whose hearts are in the right place, but whose eyes turn persistently in the wrong direction. He sets out to discuss the "new" economics of Professors Keynes and Hansen; he succeeds in venting his anger at every other conceivable economic group...