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...Crimson has taken 42 of the 58 games in the series; Brown has won 14, and two have been tied. Today, the varsity will be doubly determined, since two matters are at stake. In the first place, the Crimson must beat Brown to stay in the Ivy League race. A more galling consideration is the longtime Bruin domination. This, in the eyes of Harvard followers, has gone just about far enough...
...Snow, British scientist and author, recently called attention to what he termed the problem of two cultures in our society--the gap in understanding between the traditional humanities and social sciences on the one hand and modern science and technology on the other. Both exist side by side, yet remain intellectually divorced in our modern society. This dichotomy serves well in considering the difficulties surrounding the discipline of economics, for its midway position in such a scheme is indicative of its problems...
...subject matter of economics is the productive system, with all its relations to the world of technology. The concern of economics, however, is this system's role in society and its effect on men, their livelihood, and their institutions. Not an integrator of the two cultures, nevertheless it must span the separation...
Though economics stands mid-way between two cultures, it is its similarity to the natural sciences that causes the greatest problems. Professional economics shares with the sciences an analytic technique "remote from the common experience of the layman and a language that is principally mathematical," to use the words the Bruner Committee applied to the natural sciences. And to judge from the current trend this will become increasingly...
...this year, in addition, an increased amount of attention towards policy questions and topical economic issues in both courses, a reflection of the prevalent belief that meaningful economics on the undergraduate level should relate, as Smithies said, "to the great public issues of the day." In practice these two elements--the analytical tools and the social framework in which they must fit--still remain divorced in these courses, but at least the attempt is being made to integrate them...