Word: textbooks
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...divided his work into two parts, the first treating of political economy proper; the second applying the principles of the science to the various questions of the day. We have long felt that some such book was needed. Neither Faucet nor Walker possesses the elements of a good textbook. Except to the most devoted, Mill becomes tedious through his many details, besides being antiquated in several points. For the students of Political Economy I, therefore, Prof. Laughlin's books will be a great aid. They will find there, stated in clear and forcible language, Mr. Mill's conclusions...
...anyone who has studied under Prof. Laughlin, it is unnecessary to say that his edition of Mill's "Principles of Political Economy" is a work of real value and one that will take rank as something besides a mere textbook of the sciences. The editor has done more than one would gather by glancing at the title-page; he has not only abridged much that is unnecessary to-day in the original text, but he has added a great deal of matter in the form of extensive notes. A number of diagrams have been inserted in order...
...Notes on Shakespeare's Versification," a short treatise by Mr. G. H. Brown, '78, will be on hand at Severs this afternoon. It will be used as a textbook by members of English...
Professor Sumner of Yale will institute the plan of having a "loan library for political economy" this year for his optional class. A book containing 350 questions relative to political economic subjects will be the textbook used, and the optional study will consist of looking up the references bearing upon those questions...