Word: ec
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Economics Department plans to allow its concentrators to write their theses in the junior year, thus reducing this clutter of obligations for harassed seniors. Just as importantly, its plan will rescue firmly-decided concentrators who take Ec 1 as freshmen from passing a year in limbo before they enter Ec 98. Students regularly attack sophomore tutorial as pointless, disorganized, or simply useless...
Twenty-three students in Bowles's EC 1 section have also opposed Bowles' dismissal. They signed a petition which urged that Bowles not be dismissed until a decision is handed-down in the M.I.T. case...
Winthrop's tutorials are strongest in Gov, Ec, English, History, and Soc Rel, but they are all well-liked. Master Chalmers, always sitting quietly behind the scenes, has an uncanny knack for getting the best men to come to Winthrop House. His ability to get them is one of the reasons why Winthrop's incessant "tables" are so fascinating. No one wants to eat cheeseburgers at Dudley House when he can eat lunch with John Kenneth Galbraith...
...question of admitting sophomores into Ec 98 was debated last November by the Economics Department's Committee on Undergraduate Education. The Committee decided then that the change would require Faculty approval because junior tutorials--by Faculty vote--can only be taken by juniors...
...plan now proposed would entail the creation of a new course, equivalent to Ec 98, that would probably be open only to sophomores who have already taken Ec 1. Concentrators who don't take Ec 1 in their first year will still go on to Ec 98 as juniors...