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This post provides a snapshot of Harvard graduate (A.B./A.M., 1892) Arthur Morgan Day who briefly held junior instructional ranks at Harvard, Columbia and Barnard Colleges. From his March 1942 obituary we learn that he left economics teaching to enter the world of finance in 1900.

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An earlier post with seven reports made by Arthur Morgan Day to his 1892 Harvard class.

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DAY, Arthur Morgan, 1867-
Born in Danbury, Conn., 1867; graduate of Harvard (both A.B. and A.M.) in 1892; Assistant in History, Harvard, 1893-94; Assistant in Economics, Columbia, 1894-99; Instructor in Economics Barnard College, since 1895; Instructor in Economics Columbia, 1899-.

ARTHUR MORGAN DAY, A.M., Instructor in Economics at Columbia, was born in Danbury, Connecticut, April 12, 1867, the son of Josiah Lyon and Ellen Louisa (Baldwin) Day. He graduated at Harvard in the Class of 1892, receiving at the same time the degree of Master of Arts, and in the following year entered the Corps of Instructors in that University as Assistant in History. In 1894 he took the position of Assistant in Economics at Columbia, advanced to Instructor in 1899, and in 1895 was made Instructor in the same branch at Barnard College.

Text and Image Source: Universities and their sons; history, influence and characteristics of American universities, with biographical sketches and of alumni and recipients of honorary degrees, Vol. II (1899), p. 453.

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Arthur M. Day Dies
Known as Economist

Danbury, March 7. (AP) Arthur M. Day, 74, widely-known economist, financial analyst, and adviser to a number of large corporations, died today at his home here.

Born in Danbury, April 12, 1867. Day was graduated from Harvard in 1892, receiving his bachelor’s and master’s degree simultaneously. He had worked five years in the insurance business after graduating from the public high school here before entering college.

Day taught economics at Harvard for two years following his graduation, and later was a member of the faculty of Barnard College and Columbia University.

He left Columbia in 1900 to become associated with the Prudential Insurance Company.

Some years later he joined Wood, Struthers and Company, New York firm.

Seven years ago he became associated with the Studley Shupert Company, Boston financial consultants.

A bachelor, Day leaves a sister, Mrs. William F. Starr, of Danbury.

Source: Hartford Courant. 8 Mar 1942, p. 46.

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.

Arthur M. Day Dies Known as Economist

Arthur M. Day Dies
Known as Economist