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...Senate Banking Committee has called John K. Galbraith, professor of Economics, to testify March 8 at hearings on the current stock market boom...
...John K. Galbraith, professor of Economics, called the need for such a department a "matter of first-rate importance. Our statistical work has lagged badly in the last 15 or 20 years," he said...
...Galbraith and Harris agreed with the committee finding that "the economic content of courses open to freshmen is so small that the student who does decide to concentrate in Economics is as often as not flying blind...
Harris hoped that a General Education course with "economic overtones" would be established, while Galbraith wanted Economics 1 to be opened to freshmen...
...report also called attention to the "general tendency in the Economics Department to leave undergraduate teaching to the junior members of the staff." Galbraith agreed with the committee, but saw little cause, if any, for concern on this account. "Junior members are sometimes better teachers than senior men," he said...