Word: text
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...effort to bottle up the Northwest's output until prices rose. Doubting the legitimacy of the measure, Governor Langer's neighbors declined to join his embargo. But Charles Wayland Bryan of Nebraska, brother of the late Great Commoner, took the Langer invitation for a text, delivered a sermon of his own on the woes of farmers. Governor Bryan dramatically declared: "The unrest in the nation is increasing. All of the anti-trust laws have been either nullified or overridden. The people are now being plundered. The prices of the farmers' products are decreasing so his throat...
...purpose. If such be the case, or if it is considered that an occasional lecture might unduly smother the spontaneity of undergraduate economic thought, at least it should be required that the various section men in Economics A devote part of each hour to uninterrupted comment upon the text. This would assure a measure of uniform progress, and give the course an effectiveness which it now lacks...
...also contains a rather good story, entitled "Brownstone Front," and several other articles, of which perhaps the most appropriate in an academic circle is "The Case Against State Medicine." The crown is put to an excellent copy by the attractive make up, and by the illustrations interspersed in the text, which are a feature pleasant to the eye and noval in effect...
...horrid, one need only look to such courses as Government 1, History 11, English 28. One might continue; but a typical list would fill a column. Compelled by regulation, and by a false notion of undergraduate capacity, the speaker fills up his thirty of forty lectures a year with text book material, has little opportunity to display the wares of his thought, and counts the year well spent if he write part of another book...
Reading from the text of the law, Dr. Goebbels proclaimed that it is the duty of journalists to keep out of print...