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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...great majority of people appear to believe*. . . that business confidence would be restored if the Budget were balanced and that the spurt of economic activity that would result would accomplish our common aim of recovery...
Aside from the bleeding, dying and bereavement, one result of war is that while it impoverishes most people, some people make money out of it and a few make a lot of money. Last week no less than 50 U. S. Senators, enough to pass any bill, revived the idea of "taxing the profits...
Other competitors in the field included Stanley O. Beren '41, Edward Gabriel Greenberg '41, Leon Samuel Lipson '41, John N. Mullor '40, James J. Pattee '41 and Robert Henry Ryan '41, all of whom earned their place in the finals as a result of two elimination round held during the past two weeks...
...even more attractive to students in 1910; at that time the enrollment of Ec. A surpassed that of every other course in the college. During and after the war, it became the fashion to concentrate in English, doubtless because it offered an escape from everyday life; and as a result, as many as 27 per cent of the student body flocked into that department. Only temporarily snowed under, Economics enjoyed a renaissance in the years of the depression, and today is again the most popular field in the college...
That the situation is serious is obvious: overloading of tutorial staffs, lowered intellectual standards, strained budgets, and charges that Harvard "starves" a particular branch of study, result. To offer a solution is far more difficult, for floaters always have and probably always will exist. But certainly it should be possible, through more conscientious Freshman guidance and through the establishment of broader survey courses, to provide those men capable of choosing their best field the information which they need. Broad knowledge of little depth is eminently desirable for most men at the Freshman level, for with certain exceptions, only those Sophomores...