Word: maine
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...great detail by the most eminent economists are thrust before the student, and he is asked to memorize them. Whereupon, he proceeds to do so and waits hopefully for the exam. If he learns how to think and apply economic reasoning, it is only purely incidental to the main object of memorization...
...solve the problem on his own by applying what he has learnt. The social sciences need "laboratory work" of the same kind. Tutorial and written papers are both steps in the right direction. Most important of all is that the teachers of the social sciences realize that their main object is not to present their field to the student on a platter for him to absorb but rather to teach the student how to learn and guide him in his study...
...main thing that I must do this spring is to get the boys oriented into their positions. A lot of them will find themselves in entirely new places next fall." He plans to switch Torby Macdonald from wing to halfback. He definitely will not play Bill Coleman, of this year's second string, at guard, but will place him at center. Ernie Sargent will probably play blocking back instead of guard...
These three main systems and their various subsidiaries give the city an efficient transit service, but probably one of the most uneconomic in the U. S. so far as the city itself is concerned...
...coping with monopoly than any other Government agency, seldom lets a week go by without cracking down on at least one corporate offender. Last week, prefacing a review of FTC's dealings with steel, milk, artichokes, cheese, liquor, fish, poultry, Mr. Ballinger stuck pretty much to generalities. His main point turned out to be the familiar FTC complaint that it has been unable to limit the growth of monopoly because the Clayton act forbids only corporate combinations through stock purchase, does not forbid actual purchase of physical properties...