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Harvard Graduate Alumnus, Arthur Morgan Day in 1896 and 1912

 

This material has been considerably expanded in a later post.

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[With the preponderance of “Harvard Men” attending graduate school at Harvard (or elsewhere), such reports of Class Secretaries give us answers to the proverbial alumnus/a question, “Whatever happened to…?”]

ARTHUR MORGAN DAY.

“1892-93, graduate student in History and Economics, H. U.; 1893-94, graduate student in History and Economics and assistant in History, H. U.; 1894-95, assistant in Economics, School of Political Science, Columbia College; 1895-96, assistant and lecturer in Economics, School of Political Science, Columbia College, and lecturer in Economics, Barnard College.”

Published ” Syllabus of six lectures on ‘Money’ for Extension Department of Rutgers College, 1895.”

Delivered “six lectures on ‘Money,’ Univ. Ex. course, New Brunswick, N. J., December-January, 1894-95; two lectures on ‘Monetary Literature in U. S.’ in course of ‘ Free Lectures to the People,’ under direction of Board of Education, N. Y.”

Source: Secretary’s Report Harvard Class of 1892, No. II. Andover Press, 1896, 30-31.

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ARTHUR MORGAN DAY

Son of Josiah Lyon and Ellen Louisa (Baldwin) Day. Born at Danbury, Conn., April 12, 1867. Prepared for college at the Danbury High School. Attended Harvard 1888-92, A.B. and A.M.; Graduate School 1892-94.

1892 to 1894, graduate student in history and economics at Harvard; 1893-94, assistant in history at Harvard;1894-1902, successively assistant, lecturer, and instructor in economics at Columbia and Barnard colleges; also assistant editor of Political Science Quarterly and Columbia University Quarterly; in March, 1902, resigned from Columbia to become registrar of the Tenement House Department of New York City for Brooklyn, Queens, and Richmond. In May, 1902, resigned registrarship to become assistant to president of Manhattan Trust Company; in July, 1903, was made secretary and treasurer of Casualty Company of America; in January, 1905, entered publicity business; in June, 1906, employed by United Gas Improvement Company of Philadelphia; in August, 1906, serious attack of typhoid caused long absence from business; in June, 1908, with Blair & Co., bankers, New York; in April, 1910, began independent work as financial agent for various clients; in January, 1912, entered bond department of Prudential Insurance Company at Newark. Has published syllabi of lectures on “Money” and “Economic History,” signed reviews in the Political Science Quarterly and elsewhere, and editorials in a New York daily. Assisted in the preparation of Seligman’s “Essays in Taxation” and “Incidence of Taxation,” Giddings’ “Democracy and Empire,” Clark’s “Distribution of Wealth,” and the second edition (rewritten) of White’s “Money and Banking.” Belongs to Harvard Club of New York.

Source: Secretary’s Report Harvard Class of 1892, No. V. Boston, Fort Hill Press, 1912, p. 54.

Image Source:  Secretary’s Report for the Twenty-Fifth Anniversary. Harvard College Class of 1892, Number VI, (1917), between pp. 68-69.