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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Take Any Courses...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 12 Here from Reich to View American Life | 10/4/1949 | See Source »

...coming year, they will live with local residents and take any courses in the University they want. Typical of their aim in these studies was Herbert Kundler's remark that he wanted to see how a government can rule by good will or "must people be governed by discipline and fear...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 12 Here from Reich to View American Life | 10/4/1949 | See Source »

Despite the optimistic views of his colleagues, something of a minority view was voiced by Seymour e. Harris '20, professor or Economics and head of the undergraduate International Trade course. "Britain will still have a substantial deficit in 1952," he predicted, "largely because the American market won't take much more British goods." Professor Harris says the British deficit is so large that "even if the United States were to double its purchases of British goods, it still would not cover a large part of the deficit...

Author: By Douglas M. Fouquet, | Title: Faculty Experts Applaud Devaluation | 10/4/1949 | See Source »

...greatly add to the economic strength of the West and that consequently there should be little to fear. "Russia may be rubbing her hands right now in hopes the British worker will have to cut his tandard of living by such degrees that Communism will easily be able to take over Britain...

Author: By Douglas M. Fouquet, | Title: Faculty Experts Applaud Devaluation | 10/4/1949 | See Source »

...endless wit and invention. Part Two, completed ten years later, shows Cervantes as absolute master of his matter, his manner and his man. Don Quixote makes a manifesto out of his guiding conviction: "Leave it to God, and everything will come out all right." People begin to take him half seriously, but misadventures come thick & fast. "I perceive now that one must actually touch with his hands what appears to the eye if he is to avoid being deceived," the knight mournfully admits. Yet hand and eye are not enough. When an enchanter turns a castle into a mere mill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Wineskin into Giant | 10/3/1949 | See Source »

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