Word: interests
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Owen, who heads this well-organized department, Jordan and Perkins (English history), Karpovich (Russian history), and Brinton (European intellectual history) combine unquestioned academic brilliance with an infectious interest in their subject. Altogether, there is an impressive enough array of professorial talent to please every intellectual taste...
Those who favor the mathematical approach to Economics will find two courses to interest them in the Department, Economics 104, introduction to the Mathematical Treatment of Economic Theory, and Economics 110, Introduction to Econometrics. The latter course represents the first time undergraduates will be given more than a glimpse of the field of econometrics, a combination of mathematics and economics of rapidly growing inmportance in the world of economic study...
...Tribune story as so much speculation. Cann himself makes it clear that he has not been approached with any offffeffrff from Harvard and has not been in communication with any athletic officials from the College. He has said that any proposition, "even if it came from Hong Kong," would interest him, whether or not be considered it seriously...
...mention. Needless to say, the TVA proved to be none of these evils and in fact it brought the Middle South back to life. Its success started citizens in other areas of the nation thinking seriously about more Valley Authorities, but thus far the mercenaries of the special interest lobbies have been able to route all other TVA-like plans to an early grave. Now the lobbies are desperately trying to sink their hooks into Truman's proposal to set up a Columbia Valley Authority...
...United Nations Council of Harvard which sponsors the talks has attempted to create more interest in international affairs and to show the problems facing the Western European Nations and countries on this side of the Atlantic...