Word: textbooks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...problem, stated simply, has been this: while Harvard has played pretty, textbook soccer up and down the field, the offense has failed to get its act together on key scoring chances, while the solid defense has let a couple of weird goals slip by in unsettled situations...
...Barthold, a fourth-year graduate student in the Economics Department who voted with the committee to switch textbooks, said, "People have looked at it (the Lipsey and Steiner textbook) over the past few years and seen that it was getting better, so it is no big shock...
Eckstein said Lipsey and Steiner had vastly improved the macroeconomics section of their textbook, while Samuelson refused to correct the defects in his books pertaining to microeconomic theory...
Jeff Wolcowitz, head section leader of Ec 10, said Yale and other "first-rate" schools have been using the Lipsey and Steiner textbook for several years...
Before reaching the decision to drop the Samuelson book, both the committee and Eckstein studied how adequately each textbook covers the individual sections ox study outlined on the Economics 10 reading list...