Boston last week had its first exhibition of a teaching project so new that there are not even any textbooks to guide the teachers: to students of the seventh, eighth and ninth grades of Boston's public schools was offered a course in economics, one of the most difficult subjects over which many a grown man racks his brains.
The idea of teaching moppets the basic facts of economics dawned two years ago on the fertile mind of a Boston school committeeman, Joseph Lee Jr. A Brahmin, blueblood, Harvard graduate, 40-year-old Joe Jr. is the eccentric liberal grandson of a founder...
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