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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...satisfactory as the score makes it seem. As the CRIMSON of Nov. 4, 1901, put it, "Harvard defeated Brown on Saturday by a score of 48 to 0, in an uninteresting and poorly played game. Harvard was not once held for downs, while Brown was able to gain a first down only once...
Harvard fell quickly from its 1913 peak, and Brown managed its first win three years later, after a tie game and an unconvincing Crimson victory. In 1918, following a one-year lapse in the rivalry, the Bruins won again, 6 to 3, but the Crimson rallied with three straight triumphs, including...
...Crimson has taken 42 of the 58 games in the series; Brown has won 14, and two have been tied. Today, the varsity will be doubly determined, since two matters are at stake. In the first place, the Crimson must beat Brown to stay in the Ivy League race. A more galling consideration is the longtime Bruin domination. This, in the eyes of Harvard followers, has gone just about far enough...
...some of the more theoretical and analytical material, which is now consigned to Sophomore tutorial. In former years economic theory was presented in a historical vaccum without any consideration of the evolution of the economic system from a local medieval subsistence economy to the modern international productive system. The first month of Economics 1 is now devoted to filling this gap. Other changes include an increased emphasis upon the problem of underdeveloped countries and the substitution of a three-week study of the economy of the Soviet Union for the former week's survey of comparative economic systems...
Along with these changes in content have come those of organization. Gone is the "parade of stars" which formerly masqueraded as lectures. Instead there are now blocs of integrated lectures covering single aspects of the course, for example the series of lectures the first month that Professor Gill gave on economic history. Another long-standing distinguishing trait of the course, its extensive use of teaching fellows, is also...