Word: ec
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...most even-tempered freshmen at times grow resentful of the inevitable calculus wonk who loudly corrects mistakes in his section man's graphs. These are minor irritants though. The vast majority of students (95 per cent according to a 1962 Economics Department survey) end up satisfied with Ec 1 and the course hardly seemed a target for radical discontent...
Hirschman teaches Ec 152 -- "Economic Development in Latin America...
Richard T. Gill '48, lecturer in Economics and head of Ec 1, laughed yesterday when told of the plan and said, "The usual criticism of Ec 1 is that it doesn't adequately represent the conservative stream of thought. This is a refreshing change...
Richard T. Gill, Lecturer on Ecoomics, likes to tell Ec 1 students that his field is a sort-of science as it is now, and that it would be more of science if there were a laboratory in which to test economic theory. "After all," he says, "you can't expect the government to raise taxes a bit so we can see what happens, can you?" This gets a laugh, perhaps because it comes early in the year when it is especially nice to get a principle of economics dirt cheap...
...awarding of honors -- based on tutorial work, grades, and senior thesis--will remain basically unchanged in Ec, but with one less grade on a student's record, he said...