Word: rapidity
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Catchings are treated at length; while much light is also thrown on the mechanism and control of credit, and international trade in general. It would be rash to go further into the subject matter of the course for monetary theory and practice are in such a state of rapid development that next year may find a new set of problems which will call for new treatment. It can, however, be confidently concluded that if such changes do occur Professor Williams, to a greater degree than most economists, will not be restrained by dogma and tradition from treating the new conditions...
...done no injustice to the students, but in those cases where there has been great inconvenience special arrangements have been made. There has been a slow but steady increase each year in the number of books taken for outside use but this year the increase has been more rapid. The desk use in the reading room has decreased but the overnight privilege has correspondingly increased. The figures for the reading room are as follows: Desk Overnight Oct.1931 3620 2492 " 1932 6859 4243 Nov.1931 7670 2249 " 1932 5902 4555 Dec.1931 6305 2180 " 1932 3922 3268 Jan.1932...
This is the gist of an argument as familiar as it is logical--pathetically logical because pragmatic considerations engulf the ideal. It is a stirring claim that for the good of society the college should provide for these men. But, disregarding the physical difficulties of a rapid expansion, the services involved would cost a great deal of money. And in the minds of any college governing board, the responsibility to regular undergraduate and graduate students, a responsibility which it is infinitely difficult to maintain intact in times of depression, is more urgent from the point of view of proximity...
...been the fruits of a conscientious attempt on the part of the student at self dependence. There have been, of course, men whose thirst for Keokuk or Hartford was so great as to handicap them even in their work, yet for the most part the disease is distinguished by rapid recovery and pleasant convalescence...
...which . . . recognized business not alone as an aggregation of specialities, or even as a unity which can be thought of in isolation apart from the social organism; but as one social force possessing its significance mainly through its relationships to the social groups in the community." Speaking of the rapid changes in our economic system, he says elsewhere, "Much of the responsibility for dealing with these changes is in the hands of business." He does not add that unless business meets this responsibility in a better way than it has in the past, the responsibility may soon be taken...