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...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...
...Union this summer for the third time, in order to get some idea of the present economic state, observes that the diet and clothing of the workers are still very poor. A good suit, he points out, costs 1500 rubles, but the average worker makes only 800 rubles a month, the equivalent...
Since then, the police have recorded offenses by three more 'Cliffies, who will probably be taken to court later this month, McCarthy said...
With such diversity the lives of Faculty women differ greatly. Mrs. Owen, as wife to the Master of Winthrop, has found that her life is to a large extent contained within Winthrop. A typical month's calendar, crowded with student teas each Tuesday afternoon, tutor's dinners, Winthrop House galas such as the Christmas party and the spring musical, visiting scholars, and House committee dinners, leaves her only a few days in the month to attend to her old interest, politics. "I find that I can never give to the League of Women Voters a substantial, consecutive amount of time...