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...first year of study will be devoted to a consideration of the usual first year law curriculum with such modification as may seem desirable to supply the business background of the topics studied. The second year at the Business School will be spent in similar consideration of the fundamentals of business training. The last two years will be devoted to a modified form of legal training in which the problems of modern business will be emphasized. Representatives of the two Schools will together give several courses during the last two years. One of these will be a seminar in Business...
...realized advantages of such a method, but the great majority of lecturers in academic courses still insist on reviewing the facts of the course at each meeting. These men would do well to take their cue from Professor Greenough and replace stagnant repetition of facts with enlightening commentary on background and personalities...
...large audience in the New Lecture Hall. Mr. Eliot said this in summarizing his disagreement with those posts, particularly Shelley, and also the late D. H. Lawrence, who force beliefs and self-made dogmas to the forefront in their poetry, and keep poetry proper more or less in the background...
...good news that Princeton and Dartmouth and Yale and Harvard have decided to play with one another in 1934. At first glance it would seem that the three great New England universities were natural competitors and friendly rivals and that Princeton, geographically and in what one might call cultural background, was in a somewhat different category, not an inferior category, simply a different one. Yet I doubt very much if this is true. Universities, like stars, are influenced by the pull of gravity--in their case the attraction of an overpowering city. Thus Yale, although in Connecticut, tends more...
...small reason in this day why men in any walk would not welcome a chance to investigate the mysteries of ism and ocracies. And since Economics A is the present prerequisite, there seems small reason why that requirement could not be altered to allow any student with a satisfactory background in Economics to undertake the course. That background could easily be acquired through even a brief study of some text of basic principles...