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...Economics Department wants only to teach students about the types of problems economists face and the branches of economics that deal with those problems. As a result, course offerings are mainly concerned with such problems as International Economics Relations (Ec 148) and Economic Development and Underdevelopment (Ec 108). This leaves little room for regional economic studies...
Faculty members who have not already committed themselves to summers away from Harvard will run the special session, Graves said. "There will probably be about six professors here," he said. "Several of them were planning to stay in Cambridge and do research, but now they have agreed to teach...
Back in Washington for a talk to the Burro Club, the gathering of aides to Democratic Congressmen, he was by turns philosophic, nostalgic and proud. He looked forward to the day when he would teach at the University of Texas, looked backward to the happy times when he was a Congressman and Senator, and looked sideways at the historians who will judge the achievements of the Johnson years. "I believe that you know," he said, "and that our children will know, and all history will know, that that is an unparalleled record." The fencing for a site to negotiate with...
...local Indians did not share the enthusiasm of their benefactors--only six appear to have enrolled at Harvard over the entire colonial period. For the first comers, Harvard hired two Indian-speaking tutors who were to teach Greek, Latin and theology. Their careers were brief: One tutor disappeared soon after he arrived and the other was dismissed for "slinging stones at Mr. Stedmans glass Windowes...as also giveing base and filthy language." President Chauncy, fearing the same outcome if he hired new tutors, appealed to the London Society to pay larger salaries to instructors who "have to deale with such...
Bich spoke at a reading of Vietnamese poetry sponsored by the Advocate and the Asia Society, a New York-based organization that works within the United States to teach the humanities and politics of Asia...