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Despite the inherent difficulty of the study of the fundamentals of Economics and the special difficulties that result from the fact that the subject is bound up with problems of human psychology, concentration in the field must command the serious attention of Freshmen. Its cultural value, while not as patent...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fields of Concentration | 3/17/1933 | See Source »

There lies before only the prospect of weary days in Sever and weary nights in Widener. And what a bad time to study it is. Berkeley appears even more esoteric and fanciful than in January. Surely it must have been in March that Johnson bade him go kick a stone...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Student Vagabond | 3/17/1933 | See Source »

Now that the stentorian blasts of Howard Scott and the other Technocrats have died away under the rigors of a close examination, a new and more demure solution to the social ill offers itself. Professor Cannon of Harvard, in a recent speech, advanced a theory which the gentlemen of the...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: EXCELSIOR | 2/10/1933 | See Source »

Although many people hailed the latest manifestation of the Watch and Ward Society, as a welcome sign of renewed vigor, those who have followed its course closely must take a different view. It has degenerated sadly from the days when its name struck terror to booksellers who carried the favorite...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MORE WATCH AND LESS WARD | 1/20/1933 | See Source »

A specific word about the two books. Mr. Larg's short biographical sketch was first published in 1930 and is now reissued. It is at times extremely esoteric. He pictures Andre Maurois through his books, largely through his novels, which are not so well known in America. But it is...

Author: By O. E. F., | Title: THE CRIMSON BOOKSHELF | 4/29/1932 | See Source »

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