Word: leveler
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...final similarity with the sciences lies in the difficulty both areas have in getting the proper senior faculty to teach undergraduate courses. Because of the vast gap between the level of professional work and the elementary nature of undergraduate work--a gap so great that the difference is not only of degree of sophistication but of content--many professors are either reluctant to teach undergraduates or incapable of making the transition...
...fact, almost one already. Ec. 141--Money and Banking, Ec. 161--Industrial Organization, and Ec. 181--Industrial Relations, cover the major areas of the field and at least two of them are necessary to handle Generals well. A real core program where all concentrators would progress from one level of the next has many advantages; it provides a common background which the lecturer can assume, gives a common training, and insures that a student will not neglect a vital aspect of the field. But it also has disadvantages, the primary one being the difficulty of handling non-concentrators who have...
...there is this year, in addition, an increased amount of attention towards policy questions and topical economic issues in both courses, a reflection of the prevalent belief that meaningful economics on the undergraduate level should relate, as Smithies said, "to the great public issues of the day." In practice these two elements--the analytical tools and the social framework in which they must fit--still remain divorced in these courses, but at least the attempt is being made to integrate them...
...undergraduate program as part of a liberal arts program should not be a pre-professional training. Disagreement, however, becomes manifest quickly after that statement. Many members of the department, for instance, feel that the best concentrators, the potential future economists, should be allowed to take courses on the graduate level, and indeed should be encouraged to do so. In effect these students would be obtaining a pre-professional training, but the supporters of this proposal feel that this is the only way whereby the interest of the economics-oriented student can be prevented from obstruction by the triviality of normal...
...Vleck, a member of the five-man Harvard team sent to the universities of Moscow and Leningrad in February 1959, praised Soviet work in physics, stating that it had equaled the American level for the past ten years...