Word: frickey
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...field of "Social Security", Edwin Frickey, associate professor of Economics, "A Survey of Time Series Analysis and its Relation to Economic Theory;" and Seymour E. Harris, associate professor of Economics, "Economics of Social Security...
...half course such as 2a. Nearly all the advanced courses will be found worth while, but they cannot all be taken and must be chosen with the interests and the special field of the concentrator in mind. Course 21a was blamed for wasting the effort of Professor Frickey, for students claimed the material could be covered in less than a mouth. It is necessary for graduate work, and cannot be expected to be very interesting. Mason's Economics 11a and b, on the history and economics of Socialism, while they are not well organized, represent--especially the history--a field...
...study of statistics requires at least as much personal instruction as that given in Mathematics A; yet, under the present set-up, nothing but formal lectures before the class as a whole attempt to clarify the reading. Professor Frickey does his best to break down the formality of the atmosphere by occasionally answering questions, but the class has expanded beyond the discussion stage. What little personal contact one does make during the half year is gleaned solely from the altogether too brief weekly laboratory sections. With three hours of laboratory work crammed into a two-hour session...
...crowning example of superficial organization in Economics 21a is the hodge-podge of its chief texts. Ostensibly, the backbone of the course is the poorly arranged and errata-infested text, Crum and Patton. To this, as a supplement, is added Professor Frickey's mimeographed "Notes and Problems", beyond a doubt one of the most readable and helpful sources in elementary statistics. They, however, are still no more than a glorified explanation of an inadequate text; and the confusion arising from the awkward necessity of having to consult two texts, neither one of which is complete, is indeed a ridiculous situation...
...place of assembling the entire class three times a week for formal lectures, Professor Frickey would do well to follow out the same procedure which he already uses in Accounting--namely, to break up the class into compact sections of twenty to thirty members and allow his assistants to do the lecuring on a small scale. This would give that personal instruction which is so necessary to a subject resembling both geometry and algebra. In addition it would eliminate much of the time wasted in stagnant perplexity during the laboratory period. As for reforming the reading material, we can suggest...