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...relatively uninstructive. Leaders in the de- partment have replied to the writer's criticism that the lecture system is incapable of giving the student a firm and realistic grip on the difficult problems of economic theory. They point to past experience for support. With unconcealed sense of martyrdom they explain how and why the lecture system was abandoned in the past. The fact remains, however, that dissatisfaction with the course is almost universal in the student body. It is to be earnestly hoped that a system of lectures supplemented by conferences and individual tutorial assistance is in the immediate rather...
...sure, the assistants lead a harassed life with their own early graduate work and the simple questions of neophytes trying to make an impression. But, for all of that, the perplexed student will often find that he is more puzzled than helped by their often vague attempts to explain. Further, these courses are marked by sloppiness of laboratory technique, due to the students' unfamiliarity with the operations involved, and to the presence of pre-medical men who are not primarily interested in chemistry, but only in passing off bothersome course requirements...
TIME spells Tokyo with a "y," and I should be glad if you will explain why you use this style...
Rules. The bankers of the nation soon began asking Washington precisely how the President's proclamation must be interpreted. Late Monday afternoon little Mr. Woodin. blue-shirted. check-suited, spatted, was able to sit on the edge of his desk and, swinging his feet, explain...
Quitting Geneva amid a few Japanese shouts of Banzai! ("May You Live 10,000 Years!") Japanese Chief Delegate Matsuoka sped by train to Paris, arrived there unable to make up his mind last week whether he ought to cross the Atlantic and "explain everything" to President Roosevelt or sail from Marseilles for Japan via the Suez Canal...