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Comparison of Course Offerings. Chicago, Columbia, Harvard ca. 1893-94

Compilations of graduate courses in all fields were published by a Committee of the Graduate Club of Harvard in cooperation with committees of similar clubs at other universities for the last six academic years of the 19th century:

1893-94 edition
1894-95 edition

1895-96 edition
1896-97 edition
1897-98 edition
1898-99 edition

After the sixth edition for 1898-99, the “The publication of the compendium of graduate courses has, for the present at least, been abandoned. This decision was made by the convention after hearing the report of a very careful investigation of the subject by a special committee appointed at the convention of 1897. It was shown that the very
limited number of copies of the Handbook sold did not warrant the continuance of such an expensive publication.” 1899-1900 edition, pp. 3-4.

Here I have selected the course listings from the 1893-94 edition, pp. 47-49. I’ve checked the course listings for Chicago and found they correspond to the course offerings for 1892-93, hence I put “ca.” in the title to this posting. I have rearranged the order to approximate matching course content across the universities.

The cells in the table provide the following information:

  • Instructor
  • Course title
  • Hours per week, Weeks per course, Usual months offered.

An asterisk means the course in question was also open to undergraduates.

Chicago

Columbia

Harvard

A. C. Miller
Princip. pol econ.
5, 24, Jul.-D.
Richmond Mayo-Smith
Histor. and pract. pol. econ.
3, 30
F. W. Taussig
Econom. theory from Adam Smith till present.
3, 31.
A. C. Miller
Adv. pol. econ.
5, 12, Ja.-Mr.
William Caldwell
Descrip. pol. econ.
4, 12, Ja.-Mr.
J. Laurence Laughlin
Hist. pol. econ.
4, 12, A.-Ju.
W. J. Ashley
El. econm. opinion, down to Adam Smith*
William Caldwell
Hist. pol. econ.
4, 24, Ja.-Ju.
William Caldwell
Scope and method pol. econ.
4, 12, A.-Ju.
Laughlin
Money and pract. Economics.
4, 24, O.-Mr.
C. F. Dunbar
Banking and hist. of B.*
3, 15, F.-My.
Dr. G. E. Hill
Banking.
4, 12.
C. F. Dunbar
Internat. paymts. and flow of precious metals.*
3, 16, O.-Ja.
A. C. Miller
Finance.
4, 12, O.-D.
E. R. A. Seligman
Science of finance.
2, 30.
A. C. Miller
Financ. hist. U.S.
4, 12, A.-Ju.
E. R. A. Seligman
Financ. hist. U.S.
2, 14, F.-My.
C. F. Dunbar
Hist. finance legis. in U.S.*
3, 16, O.-Ja.
Dr. G. E. Hill
Railway transportation.
4, 24, O.-Mr.
E. R. A. Seligman
Railroad probs.
2, 16, O.-Ja.
F. W. Taussig
Railway transport.
3, 16, O.-Ja.
Dr. G. E. Hill
Indust. and econ. hist.
4, 24, Ja.-Ju.
W. J. Ashley
Dev. of land-tenures, agrarian condition in Europe.*
1, 31.
William Caldwell
Econ. factors in civilize.
4, 12.
C. B. Spahr
Distrib. Am. Wealth.
1, 30.
Edward Cummings
Principles of social.; Dev. of mod. state and its soc. functs.*
2,31.
Dr. G. E. Hill
Tariff hist. U.S.
4, 12, A. –Ju.
F. W. Taussig
Hist. tariff legis. U.S.
2-3, 15, F.-My.
E. W. Bemis
Social economics.
4, 12, A.-Ju.
F. H. Giddings
Sociology.
2, 16, O.-Ja.
Edward Cummings
Soc. and econom. cond. of working-men.*
3, 31.
William Caldwell
Social econ., soc. reforms.
4, 12, Jul.-S.
F. H. Giddings
Origins of family, clan, tribe.
2, 14, O.-Ja.
F. H. Giddings
Crime and penology.
2, 14, F.-My.
T. B. Veblen
Socialism.
4, 24, Ja.-Ju.
Richmond Mayo-Smith
Communistic and socialist. Theories
2,30.
Edward Cummings
Ideal soc. reconstr. from Plato to pres.*
1-2, 31.
T. B. Veblen
Am. agriculture.
4, 12, O.-D.
Dr. J. A. Hourwich
Statistics (el.).
4, 12, O.-D.
Dr. J. A. Hourwich
Statistics (adv.).
4, 12, Ja-Mr.
Richmond Mayo-Smith
Statistical sci.
2, 30.
Laughlin
Econom. sem.
4, 30, O.-Ju.
Richmond Mayo-Smith
Sem. in pol. econ. and soc. sci.
All instructors
Seminary in economics.
1,31.
A. C. Miller
Sem. in finance.
4, 36, O.-Ju.