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Most of his discussion yesterday was confined to a factual outline of the British attitude toward training men for technical positions. "This war is a technical war in which physicists and engineers in particular are at a high premium," he stated in the opening portion of his speech. Although the British realize the necessity for having doctors, physicists, engineers, and chemists, "the academic world has come to the conclusion that the war must first...
...without power of subpena, could hope to get such an authoritative picture of U.S. business. Because of the expense, no Government agency is likely to tackle the job soon again. For years to come, unless World War II makes pre-war economics obsolete, the TNEC study will provide a factual basis on which U.S. business problems will be approached...
...course should be extended from a half to a full year. Economic History from 1750 to 1914 (Ec. 36) was thought to be interesting and well worth a year's time, Ec. 81 on Labor Problems was considered one of the best courses, especially for its diverse reading and factual backing up of theory with statistics. Since C or worse is flunking in the graduate school, most wary students taking graduate courses make sure they hit B, and A's are not at all unusual. This factor seems to draw many members of the department into the graduate school, where...
...History courses are considered better than the Literature courses. The charge most often leveled against all courses is that they fail to relate the facts to the cultural and economic background of the time. Thus History 32, an indispensable and brilliant course for a History major, is considered too factual with the emphasis on events rather than currents, and English 21 is unsatisfactory because it fails to emphasize social point of view...
...them. We had intended to provide some theoretical basis for a non-interventionist position. Instead of our selections, most of the books with non-interventionist implications were such as would discredit our point of view (The Wave of the Future). Though manifestly intended to provide Harvard students with a factual and interpretive basis for understanding the issues of today, the "war library" has eventually emerged with the lurid confessional of Jan Valtin prominent among its volumes. I consider this an insult to the intelligence of undergraduates...