Apparently, she had been encouraging the students to read Veblen's The Theory of the Leisure Class in addition to the Methodist reader.
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Thorstein Veblen (1857–1929), usually characterized as an economist or sociologist, and best known for writing the book The Theory of the Leisure Class (ISBN 0-14-018795-2), lived about a mile northeast of town.