Word: tasks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Wherever possible, the Department is trying to supplement it with other reading. The course is conducted wholly in sections, probably the best method in a subject of this kind. Obviously everything depends on the instructors, and for the most part they are among the best in the University. Their task is made difficult by the necessity of trying to satisfy both those men who are content with the broad outlines of the work and those who desire a more detailed discussion. It has been suggested that more honor sections be formed; and that they be organized after November hours...
...Economics 3 the instructors are faced with the uniquely difficult task of explaining the intricacies of "Money and Banking" with not a few words on foreign trade. The course requires a thesis although certain Seniors are exempt...
...like the "New Yorker," "Stage," and "Vanity Fair." Especially to be commended is the Freshman's preference of the "Yale Records" to the "Harvard Lampoon." We might also commend their pertinacity in resisting the wiles of the coy cowboy, who presumptiously attempts to arbitrate on their literary selection--a task hardly suitable to a constant purveyor of "Collier's Weekly," "World Almanac" and "Bunk...
...College Tutoring Bureau has been set upon by a New York publisher who objects, and in strenuous wise, to their unsanctioned sale of text outlines. Diverted for a moment from their cheery task of pillaging the Freshman till, the Bureau responds with a shocked innocence, that such things have always been, and implies that the pre-final period is a rather nasty time to bring it all up anyway. Meanwhile, cocking its ear towards the Yard, the Bureau professes to find a murmur against an intolerance so fatal...
...Shorter Working Day and a Minimum Wage" and Spencer Miller, Jr., secretary of Workers' Educational Bureau of America on "The Challenge to Labor of the New Leisure." On Friday, May 5, F. M. Davenport, congressman from New York, will speak on "The Magnitude of the Politician's Task...