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Harvard. Statistics. Enrollment, course description, final exam. Young, 1910-1911

Post author By Irwin Collier
Post date 2026-02-05

According to a story in The San Francisco Call Bulletin (19 June 1910), the head of the Stanford department of economics, Allyn A. Young, was to go on leave for a year to take the place of Professor Taussig at Harvard. Perhaps Taussig planned on going on leave himself when the original invitation to Young was made, but Taussig did end up teaching his courses as scheduled at Harvard in 1910-11. Young returned to Harvard in 1920.

This post adds links to the statistics exams of courses offered earlier at Harvard by John Cummings and William Z. Ripley. The exam questions for Allyn Abbott Young’s visiting year at Harvard have been previously posted so the value-added to Economics in the Rear-view Mirror is the added course description along with links to earlier statistics exams in the economics department beginning in 1896.

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Statistics (Econ 4), previous years

1896-1900, John Cummings.
1900-01 [omitted]
1901-02, Ripley.
1902-03, Ripley.
1903-04, Ripley. [only mid-year exam found]
1904-05, Ripley.
1905-06 [omitted]
1906-07. [offered but no printed exam found]
1907-08, Ripley. [only mid-year exam found]
1908-09, Ripley.
1909-10, Ripley.

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Course Description
1910-11

[Economics] 4. Statistics. — Theory, method, and practice. Tu., Th., at 11. Professor [Allyn Abbott] Young (Leland Stanford Jr. University).

This course is intended rather as an analysis of methods of research and sources of information than as embodying mere results. A brief history of statistics will be followed by an account of census and other statistical methods in the United States and abroad, with the scientific use and interpretation of results. The main divisions of vital statistics, relating to birth, marriage, morbidity, and mortality, life tables, etc.; the statistics of trade and commerce, such as price indexes, etc.; industrial statistics relating to labor, wages, and employment; statistics of agriculture, manufactures, and transportation, will be then considered in order. Laboratory work, amounting to not less than two hours per week, in the preparation of charts, maps, and diagrams from original material, will be required.

Course 4 is open to students who have taken Economics 1; and it is also open to Juniors and Seniors who are taking Economics 1.

Source: History and Political Science, Comprising the Departments of History and Government, and Economics, 1910-11. Published in the Official Register of Harvard University. Vol. VI,I No. 23 (June 21, 1910), p. 53

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Course Enrollment
1910-11

Economics 4. Professor [Allyn Abbott] Young (Leland Stanford Jr. University). — Statistics. Theory, method, and practice.

Total 26: 5 Graduates, 8 Seniors, 9 Juniors, 1 Sophomore, 2 Freshmen, 1 Others

Source: Harvard University. Report of the President of Harvard College, 1909-1910, p. 49.

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HARVARD UNIVERSITY
ECONOMICS 4

Mid-year Examination, 1910-11

[There was no mid-year exam in the collection of printed exams.]

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HARVARD UNIVERSITY
ECONOMICS 4

Year-end Examination, 1910-11

Answer eight questions.

In what ways did (1) “German university statistics” and (2) “political arithmetic” differ from modern “statistics”?
What errors are found in age statistics?
In what ways may the death rates of two or more cities be accurately compared?
What are the best methods of measuring the change in the length of human life? What different things may be meant by the “length of human life”?
Discuss census statistics of manufactures, with special reference to the definitions of (1) “manufactures,” and (2) “capital.”
What are the chief uses of price statistics? How are the problems of (1) choosing quotations, and (2) weighting, affected by the intended use?
What different methods of “smoothing” a statistical diagram can you suggest? When should diagrams “smoothed” and when not?
What refinements of method should be observed in making comparisons of the birth rate at different periods or for different classes of the population?
May it be expected that most frequency curves will approximate the normal curve of error? Why?

Source: Harvard University Archives. Harvard University, Examination Papers, 1873-1915. Box 9, Bound vol. Examination Papers 1910-11 (HUC 7000.25) Papers Set for Final Examinations in History, Government, Economics,…,Music in Harvard College (June, 1911), p. 42.

Image Source: Portrait of Allyn A. Young from the 1918 Cornell yearbook, The Cornellian (vol. 50), p. 18. Image enhanced by Economics in the Rear-view Mirror.

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Harvard. Course Readings for Economics and Social Ethics, 1920-1921

Post author By Irwin Collier
Post date 2025-11-13

Old Gate at Harvard College (August 6, 1920)

The artifact transcribed and linked for this post was found in last of ten boxes in the Harvard Archives collection “Syllabi, course outlines and reading lists in Economics, 1895-2003”. I had worked through the previous nine boxes containing folders chronologically ordered by academic year. Box 10 contained five folders of poorly sorted course materials that were undated, requiring some effort to establish a probable time range for any of the artifacts.

In the first folder I found an eight page typed list of courses, with the names and assigned readings (for most of the courses offered to both undergraduate and graduate students, though no reading lists for the courses that were primarily offered for graduate students) which was relatively easy to date by looking at the course staffing announced in the annual catalogue for the Division of History, Government, and Economics, 1920-21. There is one reference to Taussig’s third edition (Dec. 1921) in the list which would suggest that the list was probably prepared for the 1921-22 or 1922-23 year using materials gathered from the earlier 1920-21 academic year. But the perfect correspondence of course staffing between the transcribed list below and the published announcement for 1920-21 is sufficient for me to assign the 1920-21 academic year to the post.

Square brackets […] have been used to distinguish additional information from the typed list. All explicit titles have been linked, increasing the value of this post considerably.

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Course Descriptions for
Economics and Social Ethics,
1920-21

Division of History, Government, and Economics, 1920-21 published in the Official Register of Harvard University, Vol. XVII (May 22, 1920) No. 27.

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One Harvard Graduate’s Memoir
of the 1920s

Carlson, Valdemar. “The Education of an Economist before the Great Depression: Harvard’s Economics Department in the 1920’s.” The American Journal of Economics and Sociology, vol. 27, no. 1, 1968, pp. 101–12.

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ASSIGNED READINGS IN ECONOMICS

A. PRINCIPLES OF ECONOMICS

[Assistant] Professor [Harold Hitchings] Burbank and assistants

Readings:

Taussig, [Frank William], Principles of Economics

[First Edition (1911): Volume I; Volume II]
[Second Edition, Revised (1915): Volume I; Volume II]
[Third Edition, (Dec. 1921): Volume I; Volume II]
[Fourth Edition (1939) requires readers to set up an individual account at archive.org for temporary access: Volume I; Volume II]

[Questions on the Principles of Economics by Edmund Ezra Day and Joseph Stancliffe Davis (Revised for the thrid edition of Taussig’s Principles of Economics) edition, 1922.]

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1a. ACCOUNTING

Asst. Professor [Joseph Stancliffe] Davis

Readings:

[none listed]

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1b. STATISTICS

Asst. Professor [Joseph Stancliffe] Davis

Readings:

Secrist, Introduction to Statistical Methods, 1-77, 116-424

King, Elements of Statistical Method, pp.1-19, 64-82, 167-196

Elderton, W. P. and E. M., Primer of Statistics, ch. 1-4

U.S. Census, The Story of the Census, 1790-1915

Field, “Some Advantages of the Logarithmic Scale in Statistical Diagrams,” Journ. Pol. Econ., Oct. 1917

Persons, W. M., Measuring and Forecasting General Business Conditions

Joint Committee on Graphic Standards, Preliminary Report
[Publications of the American Statistical Association 14, no. 112 (1915): 790–97. https://doi.org/10.2307/2965153]

Additional;

Unprescribed portions of King and Secrist

List of references appended to chapters in King and Secrist

References for Statistical Work (Prepared for Economics 1b, 1920)

Questions and Exercises in Statistics (Prepared for Economics 1b, 1920)

The Review of Economic Statistics

Lists of references in specific fields

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2a. EUROPEAN INDUSTRY AND COMMERCE IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY

Dr. [Edmund Earle] Lincoln

Readings:

See printed bibliography on file in Tutorial Library

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2b. ECONOMIC HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES

Dr. [Edmund Earle] Lincoln

Readings:

See printed bibliography on file in Tutorial Library

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3. MONEY, BANKING, AND COMMERCIAL CRISES

Professor [Allyn Abbott] Young

Readings:

[none listed]

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4a. ECONOMICS OF TRANSPORTATION

Professor [William Zebina] Ripley

Readings:

Ripley, Railroad Rates, vol. 1, (not vol. II)

Ripley, Railway Problems

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4b. ECONOMICS OF CORPORATIONS

Professor [William Zebina] Ripley

Readings:

Ripley, Trusts, Pools, and Corporations

Haney, Business Organization and Combination

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5a. PUBLIC FINANCE, EXCLUSIVE OF TAXATION

Asst. Professor [Harold Hitchings] Burbank

Readings:

Bastable, Public Finance

Bullock, Selected Readings in Public Finance
[Second edition, 1921]

Daniel [sic], Public Finance [Possibly: Winthrop More Daniels, Elements of Public Finance (1899)]

Adams, H. C., Public Finance [sic]
[Probably: The Science of Finance, An Investigation of Public Expenditures and Public Revenues (1912)]

Seligman, Essays in Taxation

Darwin, Municipal Trade

Stourm, The Budget

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5b. THE PRINCIPLES AND METHODS OF TAXATION

Asst. Professor [Harold Hitchings] Burbank

Readings:

Bastable, Selections on Public Finance

Bullock, Selected Readings in Public Finance
[Second edition, 1921]

Seligman, Essays in Taxation

Means, Methods of Taxation

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6a. TRADE-UNIONISM AND ALLIED PROBLEMS

Professor [William Zebina] Ripley

Readings:

Webb, Industrial Democracy

Commons, Trade Unionism

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7a. THEORIES OF VALUE AND DISTRIBUTION

Professor [Edmund Ezra] Day

Readings:

Marshall, Principles of Economics

Carver, The Distribution of Wealth

Taussig, Principles of Economics (1921 edition)
[Third Edition, (Dec. 1921): Volume I; Volume II]

Clark, The Distribution of Wealth

Walker, Political Economy

Fisher, The Rate of Interest

Böhm-Bawerk, Capital and Interest

Fetter, Economic Principles

Davenport, Economics of Enterprise

Veblen, The Theory of Business Enterprise

Hobson, Work and Wealth

Anderson, Social Value

Anderson, The Value of Money

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7b. SOCIALISM, ANARCHISM, THE SINGLE TAX

Professor [Thomas Nixon] Carver

Readings:

See printed circular on file in the Tutorial Library

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8. PRINCIPLES OF SOCIOLOGY

Professor [Thomas Nixon] Carver

Readings:

Bristol, Social Adaptation

Carver, Sociology and Social Progress

Sumner, Folkways

Spencer, Principles of Sociology [Vol. 1, Vol. 2, Vol. 3]

Carver, Essays in Social Justice

Giddings, Sociology

Tardl [sic], Social Gains [sic] [Looks like a typographical error. Probably Social Laws, An Outline of Sociology by Gabriel Tarde (1899 translation from the French)[

Kidd, Social Evolution

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9a. ECONOMICS OF AGRICULTURE

Professor [Thomas Nixon] Carver

Readings:

Carver, Principles of Rural Economics

Carver, Selected Readings in Rural Economics

Various bulletins and reports

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9b. INTERNATIONAL TRADE AND TARIFF POLICIES

Professor [Frank William] Taussig

Readings:

Taussig, Free Trade, the Tariff and Reciprocity

Mill, Principles of Political Economy

Smith, Wealth of Nations

State Papers and Speeches on the Tariff

Taussig, Selected Readings (to appear shortly)

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10. ECONOMIC THOUGHT AND INSTITUTIONS

Dr. [Arthur Eli] Monroe

Readings:

Aristotle, Politics, Bk. I, ch. 1-11; Bk. II, ch. 1-6; IV, ch. 11-13; V, ch. 1-9

Maine, Ancient Law, ch. 5-8

Ashley, Economic History of England, vol. I, ch. 3

Mun: England’s Treasure by Forraign Trade

Turgot, Reflections on the Formation and Distribution of Wealth

Smith, Wealth of Nations, Bk. I, 1-3, 5-9, 11 (secs. 1,2)

Smith, Wealth of Nations, Bk. II, 3-5; IV, 1, 2, 9

Malthus, Essay on Population, [Vol. I, 6th ed. ] Bk I, 1, 2; Bk. II, 13; [Vol. II, 6th ed.] III, 2, 3; Bk. IV, 1, 2, 3. (Or selections in Ashley’s Classics)

Mill, Political Economy [Vol. I], Bk. I, 5; Bk: II, 11; Bk. III, 1-5

Mill, Political Economy [Vol. II], Bk. IV, 3,4; Bk. V, 8, 10, 11 (sec. 1-9)

List, National System of Political Economy, Bk. II, 2-5, 7

Carlyle, Past and Present (selected chap.) or
Ruskin, Unto this Last, ch. 1, 3

Bücher, Industrial Evolution, chs. 3, 4

Ashley, Economic Organization of England, ch. 1-7

Wells, Mankind in the Making

(Several optional assignments to be announced later)

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11. ECONOMIC THEORY

Professor [Frank William] Taussig
[“Maurice Beck Hexter’s notes from Harvard University, 1921-22” and “Supplemental notes from F.W. Taussig’s Course in economic theory with contributions by A.A. Young” edited by Marianne Johnson and Warren J. Samuels in Research in the History of Economic Thought and Methodology, Vol. 28-C (2010), pp. 11-176]

Readings:

Ricardo, Principles of Political Economy
[Third edition, 1821]

Mill, Principles of Political Economy

Marshall, Principles of Economics

Clark, Distribution of Wealth

Böhm-Bawerk, Positive Theory of Capital

Fetter, Principles of Economics

Hobson, Work and Wealth

Veblen, Theory of Business Enterprise

Divers separate articles and chapters in other books

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9a. THE DISTRIBUTION OF WEALTH

Professor [Thomas Nixon] Carver

Readings:

Carver, Distribution of Wealth

Marshall, Principles of Economics

Böhm-Bawerk, Positive Theory of Capital

Fisher, The Rate of Interest

Clark, The Distribution of Wealth

Taussig, Work [sic] and Capital [Wages and Capital]

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14. HISTORY AND LITERATURE OF ECONOMICS TO THE YEAR 1848

Professor [Charles Jesse] Bullock

PRIMARILY FOR GRADUATES

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15. MODERN SCHOOLS OF ECONOMIC THOUGHT

Professor [Allyn Abbott] Young

PRIMARILY FOR GRADUATES

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31. PUBLIC FINANCE

Professor [Charles Jesse] Bullock

PRIMARILY FOR GRADUATES

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32. ECONOMICS OF AGRICULTURE, WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO AMERICAN CONDITIONS

Professor [Thomas Nixon] Carver

PRIMARILY FOR GRADUATES

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33. INTERNATIONAL TRADE AND TARIFF PROBLEMS

Professor [Frank William] Taussig

PRIMARILY FOR GRADUATES

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34. PROBLEMS OF LABOR

Professor [William Ripley] Ripley

PRIMARILY FOR GRADUATES

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35a. BUSINESS CORPORATIONS

Asst. Professor Davis

PRIMARILY FOR GRADUATES

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35b. BUSINESS COMBINATIONS

Asst. Professor [Joseph Stancliffe] Davis

PRIMARILY FOR GRADUATES

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36a. PUBLIC OWNERSHIP: HISTORICAL, THEORETICAL, AND PRACTICAL ASPECTS

Dr. [Edmund Earle] Lincoln

PRIMARILY FOR GRADUATES

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36b. PUBLIC REGULATION AND CONTROL OF PRIVATE INDUSTRY WITH PARTICULAR REFERENCE TO PUBLIC SERVICE INDUSTRIES

Dr. [Edmund Earle] Lincoln

PRIMARILY FOR GRADUATES

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37. COMMERCIAL CRISES

Professor [Warren Milton] Persons

PRIMARILY FOR GRADUATES

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38. SELECTED MONETARY PROBLEMS

Professor [Allyn Abbott] Young

PRIMARILY FOR GRADUATES

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[ASSIGNED READINGS]
IN SOCIAL ETHICS

1. SOCIAL PROBLEMS AND SOCIAL POLICY

Asst. Professor [Robert Franz] Foerster and Asst. Professor [James] Ford

Readings:

Booth, Life and Labour of the People of London, vol. 1 of Series 1, 3-8, 24-73, 131-171

Conklin, Heredity and Environment, rev. ed. pp.197-242, 256-258, 297-306, 416-456, 475-497

Dewey, and Tufts, Ethics, ch. 15, pp. 297-304; ch. 18-26, pp. 364-606

Flexner, and Baldwin, Juvenile Courts and Probation, Pts.1, 2, pp. 3-78

Oppenheimer, The Rationale of Punishment, pp. 1-4, 171-175, 234-295

Spencer, Principles of Sociology, vol. 1, pt. 3, ch. 9 and 12, pp. 686-724, 745-756

Warner, American Charities, 3rd ed., ch. 4, 6-10, 12, 14-15, 17-22, pр. 64-90, 113-225, 248-284, 305-346, 363-476

Wines, Punishment and Reformation, ch. 8, 10, 12-14 (3rd ed.) pp. 133-167, 199-234, 265-412

Committee of Fifty to Study the Liquor Problem, Summary of Investigations, pp. 15-134

Burritt, Dennison, Gay, Heilman, and Kendall, Profit Sharing, pp. 159-257

Commons and Andrews, Principles of Labor Legislation, pp. 1-414, 454-464

Fay, Cooperation at Home and Abroad, pp. 273-285, 310-354

Foerster, A Promising Venture in Industrial Partnership, Annals American Academy of Political and Social Science, Pub. 703, November 1912, pp. 97-103

Hoxie, Scientific Management and Labor, pp. 25-139

King, Industry and Humanity, ch. 7, 8, pp. 167-303; ch. 10, pp. 364-390

British Labor party, Sub-committee on Reconstruction, report, Labor and the New Social Order, reprint from the New Republic, Feb. 16, 1918, pp. 12

Lee, Play in Education, pp. 319-391, 423-494

Schaeffle, Quintessence of Socialism, pp. 39-127

Schloss, Industrial Remuneration, pp. 286-309

Spargo, Applied Socialism, pp. 87-325

Veiller, Housing Reform, pp. 3-190

Williams, Profit-sharing, pp. 17-42, 146-171

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4. AMERICAN POPULATION PROBLEMS: IMMIGRATION AND THE NEGRO

Asst. Professor [Robert Franz] Foerster

Reading:

Byington, Homestead: The Households of a Mill Town, ch. 9-11, pp.131-157

Fairchild, Immigration, ch. 1-5, 7, 9, 10, 12-14, 16, pp. 1-105, 123-143, 163-212, 233-368, 393-415

Foerster, The Italian Emigration of Our Times, ch. 21-24, pp. 415-525

Ibid. Quarterly Journal of Economics, Aug.1913, Review of Hourwich’s book on immigration, pp. 656-671

Hourwich, Immigration and Labor, ch. 4, 5, 12-15, 18, 23, pp. 82-112, 284-352, 375-383, 489-501, 414-431 and in chapter 21, Report of the MASS. COMMISSION ON IMMIGRATION, 1914, pp. 54-104

Millis, The Japanese Problem in the United States, ch. 1, pp. 1-29

Reely, Selected Articles on Immigration (Debaters’ Handbook) pp. 131-134, 200-204, 219-222, 225-229

Roberts, The New Immigration, ch. 9, 11-13, pp. 124-138, 156-199

Ross, The Old World in the New, ch. 1-4, 6, 11, pp. 1-92, 120-140, 259-281

U. S. Immigration Commission, vol. 39, pp. 5-81, 127-129

Walker, Discussions in Economics and Statistics, vol. 2, pp. 417-426

Warne, Slav Invasion, pp. 28-38, 47-83

U. S. Immigration Commission, vol. 1, pp. 491-541; vol. 4, pp. 239-281, 337-348

Ovington, Half a Man, ch. 4-8, pp. 75-217

Shaler, The Neighbor, pp. 278-336

Stone, Studies in the American Race Problem, pp. 149-208

Tillinghast, The Negro in Africa and America, Amer. Econ. Review, May 1902, pp. 28-45, 60-79, 102-170

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6. UNEMPLOYMENT AND RELATED PROBLEMS OF THE WORKING CLASSES

Asst. Professor [Robert Franz] Foerster

Readings:

Beveridge, Unemployment, pp. 1-237

Webb, Seasonal Trades, ch. 1, 2, pp. 1-90

U. S. Bureau of Labor, Report on Women and Child Wage-Earners, vol. 7, pp. 43-60, 64-67, 177-192

Barnes, The Longshoremen, pp. 55-92, 199-206, 210-227

Chicago, Report of the Mayor’s Commission on Unemployment, 1914, pp. 107-165

U. S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Bulletin 206, B. Lasker, British System of Labor Exchanges, pp. 1-56

Kellor, Out of Work, Ch. 6, pp. 157-193

Gibbon, Unemployment Insurance, pp. 187-203

Dawson, Vagrancy Problem, ch. 4, 11, pp.104-132; 229-249

Ibid. Social Insurance in Germany, ch. 2-4, 7-9, pp. 22-127,182-265

Gibbon, Medical Benefit …Germany and Denmark, ch. 2, 6, 9, 12, 18 pp. 10-14, 43-52, 81-106, 125-131, 192-203

Rubinow, Standards of Health Insurance, Ch. 5-9, pp.67-152

Belloc, The Servile State, pp. 155-189

24th Annual Report of the U.S. Commissioner of Labor, 1909, Vol. 2, pp. 1499-1530, 1540-1544

Foerster, The British National Insurance Act, Q. J. of Econ., Feb. 1912, pp. 275-298, 305-312

Bernhard, Undesirable Results of German Social Legislation, pp. 39-75

Mass. Commission on Old Age Pensions, 1910 Report, pp. 112-122, 164-203, 224-259, 268-284, 300-344

U. S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Bulletin 195, Unemployment in the United States, 1916

Source: Harvard University Archives. Syllabi, course outlines and reading lists in Economics, 1895-2003. Box 10, Folder “Economics, undated (1 of 5)”.

Image Source: Old Gate at Harvard College (Leon H. Abdalian, photographer). Boston Public Library Arts Department. [No Copyright – United States]

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Harvard. Application for PhD candidacy and graduate records. Olin Winthrop Blackett, 1926

Post author By Irwin Collier
Post date 2025-06-08

The first two items posted below from the graduate records of Olin Winthrop Blackett (Harvard PhD 1926) are of particular significance, marking what appears to be the very first time that Mathematics was accepted as a field in the General Examination for a PhD in economics at Harvard. The decision to accept Mathematics as a minor field was made in November 1920, Blackett’s general examination took place in May 1922 and his PhD was awarded in 1926. The title of Blackett’s doctoral thesis was “The Cyclical Movements of the Prices of Raw materials in the Iron and Steel Industry.”

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Requesting approval of a mathematics minor in the General Examination

HARVARD UNIVERSITY
DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMICS

F. W. Taussig
T. N. Carver
W. Z. Ripley
C. J. Bullock
A. A. Young
W. M. Persons
E. E. Day
J. S. Davis
H. H. Burbank
A. S. Dewing
E. E. Lincoln
A. E. Monroe
A. H. Cole

Cambridge, Massachusetts

November 5, 1920

Prof. C. H. Haskins,
Harvard University,
Cambridge, Mass.

Dear Mr. Haskins,

I enclose herewith O. W. Blackett’s application for candidacy for the degree of Ph.D. in Economics. Blackett’s program is perfectly regular with the possible exception of the offering Mathematics as his minor. It seems to me that even in this particular the program is normal. I have talked over the Mathematics minor with the Department of Mathematics, particularly with Professor Huntington and have come without difficulty to an understanding which seems to assure a minor in that Department fully the equivalent of any of the other more common minors, and particularly serviceable for men who propose to specialize, as does Blackett, in the field of Statistical Method.

If Blackett’s program is approved, one or two others of similar kind will be submitted at an early date. I doubt not, furthermore, that Mathematics minors will become common among those expecting to specialize along statistical lines. Statistical method clearly is developing in directions that make a sound mathematical training an indispensable element in an adequate professional equipment.

Should Mathematics be accepted for men specializing in Statistics, I would suggest that you try to obtain the services of Professor Huntington as examiner when the field is up at the General Examinations. Professor Huntington has a definite interest in the application of Mathematics to Statistical Methode and is thoroughly acquainted with the material upon which candidates in Economics may most profitably be examined.

Sincerely yours,
[signed] Edmund E. Day

EED A
Encl.

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Request Granted

8 November 1920

Dear Day:

I cordially approve of Blackett’s programme, with the explanation given in your letter. It seems to me that when we accept Mathematics, we should be sure of men’s general Economics preliminary training, and that these men in particular get the courses in Economic History. Our plans ought always to be flexible enough to include the acceptance of an outside subject, where it is essential to the student’s work. What you say about the necessity of Mathematics for statisticians is sound, and I hope we shall encourage other men to take the same field. I shall bring the plan up at the next meeting of the Division.

Sincerely yours,
[unsigned copy of C. H. Haskins]

Professor E. E. Day.

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HARVARD UNIVERSITY
DIVISION OF HISTORY, GOVERNMENT, AND ECONOMICS

Application for Candidacy for the Degree of Ph.D.

[Note: Boldface used to indicate printed text of the application; italics used to indicate the handwritten entries]

I. Full Name, with date and place of birth.

Olin Winthrop Blackett. July 12, 1895. Winthrop, Mass.

II. Academic Career: (Mention, with dates inclusive, colleges or other higher institutions of learning attended; and teaching positions held.)

Wesleyan University, 1914-17, & 1919-20.
Rich Fellow and Assistant in Economics, Wesleyan, 1919-20.

III. Degrees already attained. (Mention institutions and dates.)

B.A. Wesleyan, 1917.
M.A. Wesleyan, 1920.

IV. General Preparation. (Indicate briefly the range and character of your undergraduate studies in History, Economics, Government, and in such other fields as Ancient and Modern Languages, Philosophy, etc. In case you are a candidate for the degree in History, state the number of years you have studied preparatory and college Latin.)

Economic Theory —1 year elementary —3 years advanced.
Money and Banking —1 year. Corporations —1 year.
Tariff and International Trade —1 year. Labor Prob. —1 year.
Socialism, Single Tax, etc. —2 years. Statistics — 1 year.
American History —1 year. English & European History —1 year.
Philosophy —2 years. German —2 years. Math —4 years.

V. Department of Study. (Do you propose to offer yourself for the Ph.D., “History,” in “Economics,” or in “Political Science”?)

Economics

VI. Choice of Subjects for the General Examination. (State briefly the nature of your preparation in each subject, as by Harvard courses, courses taken elsewhere, private reading, teaching the subject, etc., etc.)

Economic Theory. — This was my major study during three years of undergraduate work and one year of work for the masters degree. Taught theory 1 year in Wesleyan U. Eco. 11 & 14 at Harvard this year.
Money, Banking, and Crises. — 1 year course in Wesleyan University. Auditor in Eco. 3 this year.
Public Finance. — Eco. 31 this year at Harvard.
Statistics. — 1 year in Wesleyan University. Private study during the summer of 1920.
Economic History. — Studied in connection with courses in economics and history in Wesleyan U. Econ. 2a & 2b this year at Harvard.
Mathematics. — 4 years work in Wesleyan U. including algebra, trig. analytic geom., calculus, finite differences, reduction of observations, interpolation, theory of errors, least squares, moments.

VII. Special Subject for the special examination.

Statistics

VIII. Thesis Subject. (State the subject and mention the instructor who knows most about your work upon it.)

~~The Machine Tool Industry~~. Cyclical Price Movements of Raw Materials in the Iron and Steel Industry.
Prof. Persons.

IX. Examinations. (Indicate any preferences as to the time of the general and special examinations.)

As late as possible in the spring of 1921 for the general examination.

X. Remarks

[left blank]

Signature of a member of the Division certifying approval of the above outline of subjects.

[signed] Edmund E. Day — Chairman

* * * [Last page of application] * * *

[Not to be filled out by the applicant]

Name: Olin W. Blackett.

Approved: January 25, 1921.

Ability to use French certified by C. J. Bullock. 3 March, 1922.

Ability to use German certified by C. J. Bullock. 3 March, 1922.

Date of general examination May 19, 1922. Passed.

Thesis received October, 1925.

Read by Professors Persons, Crum, and Young.

Approved November 1925.

Date of special examination Monday. April 12, 1926.

Recommended for the Doctorate [left blank]

Degree conferred [left blank]

Remarks. Mr. O. W. Blackett was examined on Monday, April 12, at 4 p.m. in room 404 College House by Professors Persons (chairman), Crum, Huntington and W.M. Cole. The committee unanimmously voted that the examination be accepted as satisfactory.
[signed] Warren M. Persons, Chairman.

* * * * * * * * * * * * * *

Postponing General Examination from Spring to Fall 1921

15 Park Vale
Brookline, Mass.,
March 2, 1921

My dear Miss Cogswell:

Please pardon the delay in returning the copy you sent me. The material is as complete as I am able to make it at the present time. I shall not be a candidate for the General Examination this spring but shall present myself probably in the fall.

Yours truly,
[signed] Olin W. Blackett.

[NOTE: The General Examination was in fact postponed to the following Spring, May 19, 1922]

* * * * * * * * * * * * *

Draft of Planned General Examination Announcement (undated)

OLIN WINTHROP BLACKETT.

GENERAL EXAMINATION in Economics

COMMITTEE [left blank].

ACADEMIC HISTORY: Wesleyan University, 1914-17, 1919-20; Harvard Graduate School, 1920-. A.B., Wesleyan, 1917; A. M., ibid., 1920. Assistant in Economics, Wesleyan University, 1919-20.

GENERAL SUBJECTS: 1. Economic Theory. 2. Money, Banking, and Crises. 3. Public Finance. 4. Statistics. 5. Economic History. 6. Mathematics.

SPECIAL SUBJECT: Statistics.

THESIS SUBJECT: [left blank].

* * * * * * * * * * * * * *

Certification of reading knowledge
of French and German

HARVARD UNIVERSITY
DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMICS

F. W. Taussig
T. N. Carver
W. Z. Ripley
C. J. Bullock
A. A. Young
W. M. Persons
E. E. Day
H. H. Burbank
A. S. Dewing
J. H. Williams
A. E. Monroe
A. H. Cole
R. S. Tucker
R. S. Meriam

Cambridge, Massachusetts

March 3, 1922

Dear Haskins:

This certifies that I have examined Mr. O. W. Blackett and find that he has such a reading knowledge of French and German as we require of candidates for the Degree of Philosophy [sic].

Very truly yours,
[signed] Charles J. Bullock

Dean C. H. Haskins

* * * * * * * * * * * * * *

Date and Place of General Examination

16 May 1922

My dear Mr. Blackett:

Your General Examination on Friday, 19 May, will be held in Widener U at 4 P.M.

Very truly yours,
[unsigned copy]
Secretary of the Division

Mr. O. W. Blackett.

* * * * * * * * * * * * * *

Committee of General Examination

23 May 1922

My dear Sir:

Your general examination will come Friday, 19 May, unless otherwise notified. Professors Day, Huntington, Young, Burbank, and Dr. Clark, have ben appointed to examine you. Of course, the committee is tentative, not final.

Very truly yours,
[unsigned copy]
Secretary of the Division

Mr. O. W. Blackett.

* * * * * * * * * * * * * *

General examination passed

HARVARD UNIVERSITY
DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMICS

F. W. Taussig
T. N. Carver
W. Z. Ripley
C. J. Bullock
A. A. Young
W. M. Persons
E. E. Day
H. H. Burbank
A. S. Dewing
J. H. Williams
A. E. Monroe
A. H. Cole
R. S. Tucker
R. S. Meriam

Cambridge, Massachusetts

May 22, 1922

Dear Young,

For the purposes of final record may I report that Mr. Olin W. Blackett’s General Examination in Economics was conducted on the afternoon of the 19th by the following Committee: Professors Day (chairman), Huntington, Young, Burbank,and Dr. Clark. This Committee voted unanimously that the examination be accepted. I return herewith the papers covering Mr. Blackett’s candidacy.

Very truly yours,
[signed by “K” for] E. E. Day

Professor A. A. Young

* * * * * * * * * * * * * *

1920-21

	Grades
	Course	Half-Course
Economics 2a¹		B
Economics 2b²		C
Economics 11	A
Economics 14	A minus
Economics 31	A

1921-22

	Grades
	Course	Half-Course
Economics 15¹		A
Economics 41	A

1922-23

	Grades
	Course	Half-Course
Economics 20	A

1923-24

	Grades
	Course	Half-Course
Economics 20 (1st half)		A

Source: Harvard University Archives. Division of History, Government & Economics. PhD. Examinations, Box 6: 1924-26.

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Course Names and Instructors

1920-21

Economics 2a ¹hf. European Industry and Commerce in the Nineteenth Century. Dr. E. E. Lincoln assisted by Mr. Hyde.

Economics 2b ²hf. Economic and Financial History of the United States. Dr. E. E. Lincoln assisted by Mr. Hyde.

Economics 11. Economic Theory. Professor Taussig.

Economics 14. History and Literature of Economics to the year 1848. Professor Bullock.

Economics 31. Public Finance. Professor Bullock.

1921-22

Economics 15 ¹hf. Modern Schools of Economic Thought. Professor Young.

Economics 41. Statistical Theory and Analysis. Professor Day.

1922-23, 1923-24

Economics 20. Economic Research.

Source: Harvard University. Report of the President of Harvard College for 1920-21. Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Announcements of the Courses of Instruction, 1921-22.

__________________________

Olin Winthrop Blackett
His life and career

Olin Winthrop Blackett, Obituary

Olin Winthrop Blackett, born July 12, 1895 in Winthrop, MA, died peacefully on Sept. 12, 1993 [sic, September 7 is correct] in Tacoma, WA. He attended Wesleyan University, the United States Naval Academy and served in the U.S. Navy in World War I. He received a PhD in economics from Harvard University where he continued on to teach in the Harvard Business School. He moved to Ann Arbor, MI, in 1924 where he was Professor of Business Statistics at the University of Michigan Business School until his retirement in 1965. He then lived in Key Alegro, TX until the death of his wife, Ruth E. Blackett in 1978 when he moved to Tacoma…

Source: The News Tribune (Tacoma WA) 9 September 1995

Image Source: Portrait from the Anne Olson family tree, “Olin Winthrop Prof. Blackett” at ancestry.com

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Economists Wisconsin

Wisconsin. Meet Assistant Professor of Economics, Allyn Abbot Young. 1907

Post author By Irwin Collier
Post date 2025-05-25

Back when graduating classes were significantly smaller, college and university yearbooks often presented members of the faculty. The University of Wisconsin-Madison libraries have digitized its “The Badger” yearbooks from 1885 through 2014. The portrait of Allyn Abbot Young above and the text below come from the 1907 yearbook.

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Allyn Abbot Young, Ph.D.
ASSISTANT PROFESSOR
OF POLITICAL ECONOMY.

ALLYN ABBOT YOUNG was born Sept. 19, 1876 at Canton, Ohio. His early education was secured in the public and private schools of Sioux Falls, S.D. In 1894 he received the degree of Ph.B. from Hiram College in Ohio. For four years Professor Young was engaged in business and journalism; then in 1898 he took up graduate work at the University of Wisconsin, where he was instructor in Economics for the year 1901-1902. In 1902 he took the degree of Ph.D. from the same institution. For the next two years he was at the head of the department of Economics in Western Reserve University, at Cleveland Ohio. In 1904 he was made assistant professor of finance at Dartmouth College, and in 1905 was appointed assistant professor of Economics at the Universitv of Wisconsin.

The publications of Professor Young have been mainly along the line of statistics, including a discussion of age statistics published by the Federal Census of 1900.

Source: University of Wisconsin. The Badger 1907 (Vol. XXI), p. 64.

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Cornell Curriculum Economists

Cornell. Frank Knight’s Cornell Coursework, 1913-1917

Post author By Irwin Collier
Post date 2025-02-05
1 Comment on Cornell. Frank Knight’s Cornell Coursework, 1913-1917

Almost fourteen years ago I was in the University of Chicago archives where I came across three boxes in Frank H. Knight’s papers containing his hand-written, three-by-five inch index card notes that covered presumably most, if not all, of his coursework at Cornell for the academic years 1914-15, 1915-16, and 1916-17. For some reason, I presume a time-constraint for that archival visit was involved, I did not copy the notes from his first year at Cornell (1913-14) to have a complete record of his graduate studies. This post provides an overview of the courses taken by Frank Knight and those professors who taught him. For his first year, we are all quite fortunate to have the story of Knight’s ex ante oeconomica life as told by Ross B. Emmett (2015) in his excellent, Frank H. Knight Before He Entered Economics (1885-1914).

The official Cornell course announcements were published in the Spring before the academic year began. This means there are a few discrepencies between the actual instructors identified by Knight and those found in the printed announcements. For example, Alvin Saunders Johnson left the Cornell faculty and was replaced by Thomas Sewell Adams and Herbert J. Davenport during the academic years 1915-16 and 1916-17.

Hopefully there will be time and energy later to provide summaries of course content from Knight’s detailed notes. Visitors are encouraged to sign up to receive future postings via email (see below).

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1913-14

Source: Announcement of the College of Arts and Sciences, 1913-14. Official Publications of Cornell University. Volume IV (May 15, 1913) Number 11.

Philosophy 11. Philosophical Results and Applications. First term, credit one hour. Prerequisite at least one course in philosophy. Professor [James Edwin] Creighton. S, 12, Goldwin Smith 225.

The purpose of the course is to show how philosophical ideas enter into other departments of thought and have a bearing on concrete problems of life and society. This will be illustrated by a consideration of certain aspects of the movement of thought and civilization in the nineteenth century.

Philosophy 19. The Development of Modern Philosophical Problems. First term, credit two hours. Prerequisite either course 1, 3, 5, 7, 17, 20, or 21. Professor [James Edwin] Creighton. T Th, 12, Goldwin Smith 225.

A review and an interpretation of the leading philosophical ideas of modern schools and systems, with the purpose of tracing the evolution of philosophical conceptions, especially during the nineteenth century, in the light of the various scientific, social, and religious problems with which they are connected.

Philosophy 20. History of Ethics, Ancient, Medieval, and Renaissance. First term, credit two hours. Professor [William Alexander] Hammond. M W, 11, Goldwin Smith 220.

Lectures and assigned readings. A history of moral ideals and reflection in antiquity, the Middle Ages, and the Renaissance, treated in connection with social and political institutions. Primarily for seniors and graduates.

Philosophy 21. History of Modem Ethics. Second term, credit two hours. Professor [Ernest] Albee. M W, 11, Goldwin Smith 220.

The history of modern ethics with special reference to the development of the commonly recognized methods of ethics. The history of British ethics will receive particular attention, as illustrating the gradual differentiation of ethics as an independent science of philosophical discipline. Primarily for graduates.

Philosophy 30. Empiricism and Rationalism. First term, credit three hours. Professor [Ernest] Albee. T Th S, 11, Goldwin Smith 220.

Lectures, discussions, and essays. The empirical movement as represented by Locke, Berkeley, and Hume, and the rationalistic movement as represented especially by Descartes, Spinoza, and Leibniz, with reference to their distinctive methods. Locke’s Essay (Bohn edition, 2 vols.), Hume’s Treatise of Human Nature (Clarendon Press), and Leibniz’s Philosophical Works (Duncan’s translation, Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor, New Haven). Primarily for graduates.

Political Science 87. The History of Economic Theory. Throughout the year, credit three hours a term. Professor [Alvin Saunders] Johnson. T Th S, 9, Goldwin Smith 264.

It is the purpose of this course to trace the main currents of economic theory from the mercantilists writers to the present day. Chief emphasis will be laid upon the development of the individualistic economic doctrines in 18th century France and England; the conditions, economic and social, upon which they were based; the consolidation of the doctrines in classical economics; and the modifications they have undergone through the influence of historical and social political criticism.

Political Science 88. Value and Distribution. Throughout the year, credit two hours a term. Professor [Alvin Saunders] Johnson. Th, 2.30, Political Science Seminary.

This course is devoted to a study of the chief problems of current economic theory, including the nature, the value, and the laws of its growth, valuation of capital and capitalization, the interest problem, wages, profits, competition, and monopoly. The works of the chief contemporary authorities will be critically studied with a view to disclosing the basis of existing divergencies in point of view.
It is desirable that students registering for this course should have a reading knowledge of German and French.

“The course description for Value and Distribution dated back several years, to the period when Frank Albert Fetter had taught the course. Fetter had completed his doctorate at the University of Halle, and was deeply engaged with economic ideas emerging from the Austrian School of Economics. Carl Menger, often considered the founder of Austrian economics, had initiated a Methodenstreit with the historicist orientation of the German Historical School, whose work had deeply influenced American economists of the late 19th century (many of whom, like Fetter, had completed Ph.Ds. in Germany). When Fetter joined Cornell’s faculty in 1901, there was an existing course on distribution, but not one on price theory generally. There had been, however, a course in reading German economic literature from the Historical School. The course was designed to enable economics students to meet the foreign language requirements Cornell had established for doctoral candidates. Fetter introduced a course in economic theory (eventually called Value and Distribution) that required students to read significant texts by French, German, and Austrian economists such as Leon Walras, Werner Sombart, Eugene Böhm-Bawerk, and Friedrich Wieser in their original language, thereby satisfying simultaneously the Graduate School’s foreign language requirement. When Alvin Johnson arrived at Cornell in 1913 (at the same time as Frank did), he inherited Fetter’s course. But Johnson, a mid-westerner educated at Columbia by John Bates Clark, was aligned more with the Anglo-American tradition of economic theorizing than he was with either the German Historical School or the Austrian School. Thus, he ignored the language requirement. Frank’s notes from Johnson’s course on the History of Economic Theory (which did not have a foreign language requirement) tell us that, one day in class, Johnson said, ‘American and English books [on economics] may contain logical fallacies, but their facts are reliable. Facts and fiction [are] indistinguishable in books like Sombart’s.’ Johnson then suggested that the doctoral requirements for economics at Cornell (and elsewhere, presumably) should state ‘that student[s] should not read German’ (from the Frank Knight Papers, Box 2, Folder 1, quoted in Howey 1983, 169, emphasis in the original).

Source: Ross B. Emmett,Frank H. Knight Before He Entered Eonomics (1885-1914). 2015.

Not registered, but audited.

Philosophy 26. Advanced Ethics. Throughout the year, credit three hours a term. Professor [Frank] Thilly. Lectures, reading, discussion, and essays. M W F, 10, Goldwin Smith 220. Primarily for graduates. [Knight’s notes end in February]

Political Science 54b. State Administration. Second term, credit three hours. Prerequisite courses 53a, 53b. Professor [Samuel Peter Orth]. M W F, 11, Goldwin Smith 256.

A study of the American state; the county and the township; the powers and functions of administrative organs, boards, and commissions; judicial control. Lectures, readings, and reports. Each student will be required to make a detailed study of some particular state. [Ross Emmett believes this course corresponds to Knight’s notes that he examined]

1914-1915

Source: Announcement of the College of Arts and Sciences, 1914-15. Official Publications of Cornell University. Volume V (May 1, 1914) Number 10.

Philosophy 40. Seminary in Logic and Metaphysics. T, 3-5, Goldwin Smith 231. Professor [James Edwin] CREIGHTON and Dr. [William Kelley] WRIGHT.

[Portrait of William Kelley Wright from the 1926 Darmouth yearbook “Aegis”.]

The subject for 1914-15 will be a study of certain leading metaphysical problems in the light of recent investigations.

Philosophy 37. Seminary in Ethics. Investigation of special problems. Throughout the year, credit two hours a term, Professor [Frank] THILLY. Hours and room to be arranged.

Political Science 66a. The Labor Problem. First term, credit three hours. Prerequisite course 51. Professor [Alvin Saunders] JOHNSON. T Th S, 11. Goldwin Smith 264.

This course will present a systematic view of the progress and present condition of the working class in the United States and in other industrial countries; sketch the history and analyze the aims and methods of labor organizations; study the evolution of institutions designed to improve the condition of the working class; and compare the labor legislation of the United States with that of European countries.

Political Science 66b. Socialism. Second term, credit three hours. Prerequisite course 51, Professor [Alvin Saunders] JOHNSON. T Th S, 11, Goldwin Smith 264.

Due attention will be given in this course to the various forms of socialistic theory. Its main object, however, is to describe the evolution of the socialist movement and the organization of socialistic parties, to measure the present strength of the movement, and to examine in the concrete its methods and aims.

Political Science 76a. Elementary Statistics. First term, credit three hours. Prerequisite course 51. Professor [Walter Francis] WILLCOX. T Th S, 9, Goldwin Smith 256. Laboratory, W, 2-4, Goldwin Smith 259.

An introduction to census statistics with especial reference to the federal census of 1910, and to registration statistics with especial reference to those of New York State and its cities. The course gives an introduction to the methods and results of statistics in these, its best developed branches.

Political Science 76b. Economic Statistics. Second term, credit three hours. Prerequisite course 51. Professor [Walter Francis] WILLCOX. T Th S, 9. Goldwin Smith 256. Laboratory, W, 2-4, Goldwin Smith 259.

A continuation of course 76a, dealing mainly with the agricultural and industrial statistics of the United States. Mature students that have not already had course 76a or its equivalent may be admitted by special permission. The course is an introduction to statistics in its application to more difficult fields, such as production. wages, prices, and index numbers.

Political Science 90. Research in Statistics. Throughout the year, credit to be arranged. Professor [Walter Francis] WILLCOX.

[Knight describes this as “afternoon session for Grad studs.”

Political Science 65a. The Industrial Revolution in England, 1700 to 1850. First term, credit three hours. Prerequisite course 51, previously or concurrently, or work in European history. Assistant Professor [Abbott Payson] USHER. M W F, 12. Goldwin Smith 264.

The topography and resources of England, the Industrial Revolution, commercial expansion in the 18th century. the history of the Bank of England, the rise of London as a world metropolis.

Political Science 65b. Social and Economic Problems of the 19th Century in England. Second term, credit three hours. Prerequisite course 51, previously or concurrently. Professor [Abbott Payson] USHER. M W F, 12. Goldwin Smith 264.

The course can be followed most profitably by students who have taken course 65a, but it may be elected independently. The history of English agriculture, 1700 to 1907; the poor laws, 1834 and 1909; the coming of free trade. 1776 to 1846; railroads and rate-making; Germany and the industrial supremacy of England.

1915-1916

Source: Announcement of the College of Arts and Sciences, 1915-16. Official Publications of Cornell University. Volume VI (May 1, 1915) Number 10.

Political Science 87. Principles of Economics. Throughout the year, credit three hours a term. Professor [Alvin Saunders] JOHNSON [Apparently taught by Thomas Sewall Adams]. M W F, 11, Goldwin Smith 264. Prerequisite course 51 or its equivalent.

[Photo of T. S. Adams from the University of Wisconsin Badger of 1916]

An advanced course in general economics, based upon Marshall’s Principles of Economics as a text. Especial attention will be given in this course to the laws of value and price, of wages, interest, and profit.

Political Science 64. Money and Banking. Throughout the year, credit three hours a term. Prerequisite course 51. Professor [Allyn Abbott] Young. T Th S, 10, Goldwin Smith 142.

A discussion of the more important phases of the theory of money and credit is followed by a consideration of selected practical problems, including the revision of the American banking system. Practical work is required in the analysis of the controlling conditions of the money market, of organized speculation in securities, and of foreign exchange.

Political Science 55a. Elementary Social Science. First term, credit three hours. Course 51 should precede or be taken with this course. Professor [Walter Francis] WILLCOX. T Th S, 9, Goldwin Smith 256.

An introductory course upon social science or sociology, its field and methods, with special reference to the human family as a social unit, to be studied by the comparative, the historical, and the statistical methods.

Political Science 55b. Elementary Social Science. Second term, credit three hours. Course 51 should precede or be taken with this course. Professor [Walter Francis] WILLCOX. T Th S, 9, Goldwin Smith 256.

A continuation of the preceding course but with especial reference to the dependent, defective, and delinquent classes. Open to all who have taken 55a and by special permission to others.

Knight’s note cards for lectures on “Valuation” are dated for either Monday or Tuesday meetings, but no more than one meeting per week. Notes for 21 meetings twelve on Mondays, nine on Tuesdays. So presumably his notes on valuation come from the following scheduled seminar courses.

Political Science 92. Research in Finance. Throughout the year, credit two or three hours a term. Professor [Allyn Abbott] YOUNG [and Thomas Sewall Adams]. T, 2.30. Goldwin Smith 269.

Individual or coöperative investigations of selected problems in money, banking, and corporation finance, in connection with lectures upon the sources of information and upon the use of appropriate methods of investigation.

Political Science 99. General Seminary. Throughout the year, credit two hours a term. Conducted by members of the department. M., 2.30-4.30, Political Science Seminary. Open only to graduate students

1916-1917

Source: Announcement of the College of Arts and Sciences, 1916-17. Official Publications of Cornell University. Volume VII (April 15, 1916) Number 10.

[1916-17 announcement] Political Science 51. Elementary Economics. Throughout the year, credit three hours a term. One lecture and two recitations each week Lectures, M, 9; repeated M, 11. Barnes Auditorium. Assistant ~~Professor TURNER~~. Recitations, T Th, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12; W F, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12. Assistant Professor [Abbott Payson] USHER, ~~Mr. CAMPBELL, Dr. WOODBURY,~~ Mr. [Charles Roland] HUGINS and Mr. [Clarence Cameron] KOCHENDERFER. Section assignments made at the first lecture.

From the Proceedings of the Cornell Board of Trustees Meeting of May 20, 1916 “J.R. Turner, Assistant Professor of Economics resigned effective June 30”. Also note resignations of Mr. Campbell and Dr. Woodbury. So they are struck out above. Comparing this to the announcement for the staffing of the course in 1917-1918. We see that Davenport was named as lecturers with assistant professor Reed, instructor Knight, and assistant Working appearing as well. Knight’s notes for the 1916-1917 lectures explicitly mention Davenport.

[1917-18 announcement] Political Science 51. Elementary Economics. Throughout the year, credit three hours a term. One lecture and two recitations each week. M, 9; M, 11. Barnes Auditorium. Professor [Herbert Joseph] DAVENPORT. Recitations, T Th, 8, 9, 10,11, 12; W F, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12. Assistant Professors [Abbott Payson] USHER and [Harold Lyle] REED, Dr. [Frank Hyneman] KNIGHT, Mr. [Charles Roland] HUGINS, Mr. [Clarence Cameron] KOCHENDERFER, and Mr. [Holbrook] WORKING. Section assignments made at the first lecture.

An introduction to economics including a survey of the principles of value, money, banking, and prices; international trade; free trade and protection, wages and labor conditions; the control of railroads and trusts; socialism, principles and problems of taxation.

Political Science 57b. Lectures on Citizenship. Second term, credit two hours. M W, 12, Goldwin Smith B.

A lecture each Monday by a non-resident lecturer and each Wednesday by a member of the Department. The course has been arranged by a committee of Alumni who are actively engaged in civic and social work and who are coöperating in this way with the Department. It will follow the same general plan as last year, but the speakers and most of the subjects treated will be changed.
The course will be under the general charge of Professor Orth. Reading, reports, and essays will be required.

Political Science 88. Value and Distribution. Throughout the year, credit two hours a term. ~~Professor [Alvin Saunders] JOHNSON~~. F, 2.30, Political Science Seminary.
[Johnson had resigned from the faculty, notes indicate that Davenport led the seminary that Knight has notes from October 21, 1916 through February 3, 1917.]

A study of the chief problems of current economic theory. The works of the chief contemporary authorities will be critically studied with a view to disclosing the basis of existing divergencies in point of view. It is desirable that students registering for this course should have a reading knowledge of German and French.

Political Science 89. Mathematical Economics. Throughout the year, credit two hours a term. Professor [Allyn Abbott] YOUNG. Hours to be arranged.

The use of mathematics in economic analysis, with special reference to the work of Cournot, Jevons, Edgeworth, Walras, Pareto, Auspitz and Lieben, and Fisher. Primarily for graduates.

Political Science 63a. Corporation Finance. First term, credit three hours. Prerequisite course 51. Professor [Allyn Abbott] YOUNG. T Th S, 11, Goldwin Smith 256.

A study of the business corporation, with special reference to its economic significance and effects and to the problems of its legal control, including an analysis of the financial operations of railroads, public utilities, and industrial corporations.

History 54. Economic History of the Colonies, 1600 to 1800. First term, credit three hours. Professor [Charles Henry] HULL. T Th S, 9, Goldwin Smith 234.

Colonization and settlement as business enterprises: the agricultural conquest of the coast: the competition between slave, indentured, and free labor; the commerce of the British Empire and its relation to the American Revolution. Textbooks, reading. reports, and lectures.

History 55. Economic History of the United States, since 1800. Second term, credit three hours. Professor [Charles Henry] HULL. T Th S, 9, Goldwin Smith 234.

Commerce during the European wars; the introduction of manufactures; the westward movement; industrial differentiation of the sections; agriculture for export; the amalgamation of railways and the combination of industries. Textbooks, reading, reports, and lectures.

Philosophy ??. Seminary of Professor [James Edwin] Creighton.

[Note cards for eight sessions in April and May 1917]

Image Source: Portrait of Frank Knight (1930 Fellow) at the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation website. Most of the professors’ portraits were found in the Cornell Classbook (various years). Many of the portraits have been digitally enhanced by Economics in the Rear-view Mirror.

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Brown Economists Harvard

Harvard. Economics Ph.D. alumnus Harry Edward Miller, 1923

Post author By Irwin Collier
Post date 2025-01-02

Today we meet the economics Ph.D. alumnus Harry Edward Miller who was an Allyn A. Young dissertation student awarded a Harvard Ph.D. in 1923. Miller went on to become the Eastman professor of political economy at Brown University. He was only forty years old at the time of his death that resulted from hemorrhaging, a complication from a pancreaticoduodenectomy, probably attempted because of pancreatic cancer (cause of death information from death certificate).

This post provides the entire record for Harry Edward Miller found in the files of the Division of History, Government and Economics at Harvard. Bonus content includes the identification of all his graduate school courses and instructors plus a chronology of Miller’s life and career.

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HARVARD UNIVERSITY
DIVISION OF HISTORY, GOVERNMENT, AND ECONOMICS

Application for Candidacy for the Degree of Ph.D.

[Note: Boldface used to indicate printed text of the application; italics used to indicate the handwritten entries]

I. Full Name, with date and place of birth.

Harry Edward Miller, born October 11, 1897 at Boston Mass.

II. Academic Career: (Mention, with dates inclusive, colleges or other higher institutions of learning attended; and teaching positions held.)

Boston University, 1915-19
Harvard University, Graduate School of Arts & Sciences 1919-21

III. Degrees already attained. (Mention institutions and dates.)

A.B., Boston University, 1919
A.M., Harvard University, 1920

IV. General Preparation. (Indicate briefly the range and character of your under-graduate studies in History, Economics, Government, and in such other fields as Ancient and Modern Languages, Philosophy, etc. In case you are a candidate for the degree in History, state the number of years you have studied preparatory and college Latin.)

Full-year courses in Modern & Medieval European History, American History, Comparative Government. Full-year courses in Principles of Economics, and half-year courses in Public Finance, Economic History of the U.S., Socialism, History of Economic Theory.
4 years of high-school Latin and one of college.
3 years of high-school French and one of college.
2 years of high-school German and 3 of college.

V. Department of Study. (Do you propose to offer yourself for the Ph.D., “History,” in “Economics,” or in “Political Science”?)

Economics.

Economic Theory and Its History. (Econ. 11, 14, and 15. Half-year undergraduate course at Boston University in the history, full-year course in the theory.
Economic History since 1750 (Econ. 2 with additional reading and a half-year undergraduate course at Boston Univ.).
Statistical Method and its Application (Econ. 41).
Public finance (Econ 31 and a half-year undergraduate course at Boston University).
History of Political Theory. (Gov’t 6).
Money, Banking and Commercial Crises (Econ. 3 with additional reading, and Econ 38² hf. (to be taken during second semester of this year))

VII. Special Subject for the special examination.

Money, Banking and Commercial Crises. (Econ.3)

VIII. Thesis Subject. (State the subject and mention the instructor who knows most about your work upon it.)

To be determined.
[added by someone else] “Theories of Banking in the United States before the Civil War.” (with Professor Young)

IX. Examinations. (Indicate any preferences as to the time of the general and special examinations.)

I should prefer the general examination in the late spring of this year.

X. Remarks

[left blank]

Signature of a member of the Division certifying approval of the above outline of subjects.

[signed] Edmund E. Day

* * * [Last page of application] * * *

[Not to be filled out by the applicant]

Name: Harry E. Miller.

Approved: January 25, 1921.

Ability to use French certified by C. J. Bullock, March 28, 1921.

Ability to use German certified by C. J. Bullock, March 28, 1921.

Date of general examination Thursday, 3 November 1921, passed – A.A. Young

Thesis received April 1, 1923

Read by Professors Young, Sprague and

8 October 1921

My dear Sir:

Copy

8 November 1921

Dear Young:

I have your letter of 5 November, notifying me that H. E. Miller passed his general examination.

Could you without inconvenience let me know about the general quality of the examination and whether he had any margin. The Division desires a record of this kind for reference when a candidate comes to the later stages of his work, particularly the special examination, when the Committee may have no personal recollection of the general examination.

Sincerely yours,
[“x” for Haskins]

Professor A. A. Young

* * * * * * * * * * * * * *

Supplementary Information for
General Examination of H. E. Miller

6 Hilliard Street, Cambridge, Mass.,
November 21, 1921.

	Grades
1919-20	Course	Half-Course
Economics 2a¹		B plus
Economics 2b²		A minus
Economics 11	A
Economics 31	B plus
Economics 41	A


1920-21	Course	Half-Course
Economics 14	A minus
Economics 15	A
Economics 38²		A
Government 6	A


1921-22	Course	Half-Course
Economics 20 (2 co.)	AA


1922-23	Course	Half-Course
Economics 20	[left blank]

Source: Harvard University Archives. Division of History, Government & Economics, Ph.D. Degrees Conferred 1929-30. (UA V 453.270), Box 09.

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Course Names and Instructors

1919-20

Economics 2a ¹hf. European Industry and Commerce in the Nineteenth Century. Dr. E. E. Lincoln.

Economics 2b ²hf. Economic History of the United States. Dr. E. E. Lincoln.

Economics 11. Economic Theory. Professor Taussig.

Economics 31. Public Finance. Professor Bullock.

Economics 41. Statistical Theory and Analysis. Asst. Professor Day

1920-21

Economics 14. History and Literature of Economics to the year 1848. Professor Bullock.

Economics 15. Modern Schools of Economic Thought. Professor Young.

Economics 38². Selected Monetary Problems. Professor Young.

Government 6. History of Political Theory. Professor McIlwain.

1921-23

Economics 20. Research Seminars.

Source: Harvard University. Report of the President of Harvard College for 1919-20, 1920-21.

__________________________

Harry Edward Miller
Timeline of his life and career

1897. Born [Aaron Miller] on October 10 in Boston.

1918. Military service.

1919. A.B. Boston University.

1920. A.M. in economics Harvard University.

1923. Ph.D. in economics, Harvard. (Report of the President of Harvard College, 1922-23, p. 52)

1923-24. Assistant Professor, Clark University. Cf. Holyoke Daily Transcript (18 Aug 1923). [Note: Unable to find mention of Harry Edward Miller in the relevant Clark University catalogues.]

1924. Joins the Brown economics department at the rank of assistant professor.

1927. Banking Theories in the United States before 1860. Harvard University Press. Revision of Ph.D. thesis.

1928. Appointed associate professor on the Eastman Foundation, Brown University.

1930. Appointed Eastman Professor of Political Economy, Brown University.

1931. Chairman of the Rhode Island special commission for liquor legislation.

1935. Married Rosabelle Winer of New York.

1937. Died November 14 at Beth Israel Hospital in Brookline, Mass.

Sources: Obituary published in The New York Times (November 15, 1937) and the article “Harry Edward Miller” at online Encyclopedia Brunoniana.

Image Source: The Third Seal of Brown University (1834). The seal is still in use today.

Tags Bullock, MillerHarry, Taussig, Vanderblue, Young

Economists Harvard

Harvard. Academic record of Vervon Orval Watts, Ph.D. 1932

Post author By Irwin Collier
Post date 2024-12-12

Vervon Orval Watts (1898-1993) was a faithful libertarian disciple of Harvard economics professor Thomas Nixon Carver. One of his course outlines from his time at Antioch College in Ohio has been transcribed and posted earlier.

In this post you will find the paper record of Watts’ march through the Division of History, Government and Economics that was rewarded with the award of a Ph.D. by the department of economics in 1932.

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HARVARD UNIVERSITY
DIVISION OF HISTORY, GOVERNMENT, AND ECONOMICS

Application for Candidacy for the Degree of Ph.D.

[Note: Boldface used to indicate printed text of the application; italics used to indicate the handwritten entries]

I. Full Name, with date and place of birth.

Vervon Orval Watts, March 25, 1898, Walkerton, [Ontario] Can.

II. Academic Career: (Mention, with dates inclusive, colleges or other higher institutions of learning attended; and teaching positions held.)

University of Manitoba, 1914-1918; Harvard University, 1921—
Teaching Positions: Brandon College, Jan. 1 – July 1, 1919; Gilbert Plains, high school, 1919-1921; Harvard, Assistant in Economics, 1923-24 (Asst.); 1926-27 (gr.); T + T 1927-29.

III. Degrees already attained. (Mention institutions and dates.)

A.B., University of Manitoba, 1918
A.M., Harvard University, 1923.

History:— Greek + Roman, 1 course; European, 2 1/2 courses; English History, 2 courses; Canadian History 1/2 course.
Economics:— Courses in Theory, Economic History, Public Finance, Money + Banking, Foreign Trade + Finance.
Government:— 1 course, Logic:— 1 course.
Languages:— Greek + Latin.

V. Department of Study. (Do you propose to offer yourself for the Ph.D., “History,” in “Economics,” or in “Political Science”?)

Economics.

Economic Theory and Its History.
At Harvard – Ec. 11, Ec. 14; at Manitoba – course in Theory + its History. Private Reading.
Public Finance.
At Harvard, Ec. 31; at Manitoba – 1 course. Private Reading.
International Trade + Tariff Policy.
At Harvard – Ec. 9b, Ec. 39;
At Manitoba – 1 course; Private Reading.
Economics of Agriculture.
At Harvard – Ec. 9a, Ec. 32;
– Assistant in Ec. 9a, 1923,
Private Reading.
Sociology.
At Harvard, Ec. 8,
–Assistant in Ec. 8, 1923
Private Reading.
History of England since the Reign of Henry VII.
At Harvard: Hist. 12; Auditor in Hist. S9 + Hist. 11.
At Manitoba: 1 course
Teaching of English History in high school; Private Reading.

VII. Special Subject for the special examination.

Sociology.

VIII. Thesis Subject. (State the subject and mention the instructor who knows most about your work upon it.)

The Development of the Technological Concepts of Production in Anglo-American Thought.

IX. Examinations. (Indicate any preferences as to the time of the general and special examinations.)

I should prefer the General Examination not before Feb. 1. Middle of March or few days after. [Handwritten note: “May 27/32”]

X. Remarks

Professor Carver.

Signature of a member of the Division certifying approval of the above outline of subjects.

[signed] T. N. Carver

* * * [Last page of application] * * *

[Not to be filled out by the applicant]

Name: Vervon Orval Watts

Approved: January 11, 1924

Ability to use French certified by C. J. Bullock, May 29, 1923.

Ability to use German certified by C. J. Bullock, May 29, 1923.

Date of general examination Monday, March 31, 1924. Passed. T.N.C.

Thesis received March 28, 1932

Read by Professors Carver and Taussig

My dear Mr. Watts:

This is to remind you that your general examination for the Ph.D. in Economics is to be held on Monday, 31 March, at 4 p.m. in Widener N.

Very truly yours,
Secretary of the Division

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General Examination, Carver Reminder
[carbon copy]

Secretary of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
Harvard University
Cambridge, Massachusetts

Dear Sir:

I have almost completed my doctoral dissertation in the field of economics, and I wish to be informed if there are any rules concerning the nature of the binding for the volume.

I am writing the thesis in Sociology under Professor Carver. Shall I send it to you or to him when it has been completed?

Very truly yours,
[signed] V. Orval Watts

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Scheduling Special Examination

Antioch college
Yellow Springs
Ohio

March 15, 1932

Miss Helen Prescott
772 Widener Memorial Library
Harvard University
Cambridge, Mass.

Dear Miss Prescott:

I should like to have my special examination placed at the end of May or the beginning of June if that will be convenient for Professor Carver.

Sincerely yours,
[signed] V. Orval Watts

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V. O Watts: Apology for late thesis summary

Antioch college
Yellow Springs
Ohio

March 31, 1932

Dear Miss Prescott:

I regret that my delay in writing you and in sending the summary of my thesis should have caused you the trouble and annoyance of writing me age in about it. For the past two weeks I have been exceedingly busy finishing the thesis while carrying the work of four courses. We also have an economics seminar which meets every week and I am serving on two faculty committees, one of which meets every week.

At the last moment, moreover, last Tuesday, I decided to have most of the thesis re-typed because the previous typing had been so faint. It may have been that the chemicals which are used on that ripple-finish paper may have caused the ink to fade on the earlier copy. At any rate, the work of supervising the typing and doing the proof-reading in addition to my regular teaching load led me to postpone everything I could as long as possible. I sent the summary off yesterday by special delivery, however, so that you should have received it by April first.

I should very much appreciate it if you could let me know soon whether or not my thesis appears to be acceptable. I am naturally anxious about it, especially since the last half of it has been written without Professor Carver’s supervision. It has certain merits, I believe, but I am very conscious of its short-comings. It would have been better if I had showed the earlier drafts of it to Professor Carver to secure his criticisms and suggestions; but every time I wrote a chapter I saw so many things I knew myself should be corrected that I disliked to show it to him, or to any one whose good opinion I valued, until I had done it as well as I could with it myself. In fact I still wanted to give it another revision before turning it in.

I trust that you and your sister are well. It was a pleasant surprise to discover that you were working with Professor Carver again. I am looking forward to seeing you and him again this spring, and I may bring my family along with me.

Very truly yours
[signed] V. Orval Watts

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Letter to Carver

Antioch college
Yellow Springs
Ohio

April 8, 1932

Professor Carver:

Professor Taussig read a short article I wrote in criticism of Stuart Chase’s Tragedy of Waste when I first considered the topic of waste as a thesis subject. At that time my ideas concerning my plan of procedure were vague, and Professor Taussig merely approved the general subject of economic waste as one worthy of further development. I did not return for further conferences with him.

Most of my conferences, other than those with yourself, were with Professor Young, whom I used to consult frequently during the last year he was at Harvard. The distinction between the economic and the engineering point of view and the historical approach which I took are largely the result of those conferences.

I had several conferences with Professor R. B. Perry of the philosophy department, and he read and discussed at some length with me the first chapter. Professor Mason also read a few of my earlier essays, and I had a few talks with him concerning the general subject. I have felt, however, that he never approved
either of me or of my ideas. Professor Black has stated the central idea of my thesis — the distinction between the economic and technological points of view — more clearly than any one else with whose work I am familiar, but I never had any conferences with him.

It seems to me that, all things considered, Professor Taussig is the most logical choice in the Economics Department for the examining board. He is very conscientious and honest in his criticisms and evaluations of students, yet I believe he is just and sympathetic towards new ideas.

I feel more keenly than ever at this time the loss of Professor Young, and I realize now that I may have made a mistake in not seeking the advice of Professor Taussig in writing my thesis after Professor Young left us. I always felt very reluctant to show my work to anyone, however, until I had done all I could with it myself. The distinction I have made in the thesis has not been clearly drawn by any other English writer, as far as I could discover, except by Professor Black, and I therefore felt it all the more necessary to state the idea as well as possible before
seeking criticism for it.

I expect to visit Cambridge and to see you and Professor Sorokin next Thursday or Friday. I am rather concerned about my ignorance of European sociology in view of Professor Sorokin’s interest in that field. I have been reading diligently in the history of sociological theory, but it is a very large field to cover, and I am hoping that Professor Sorokin may have some suggestions which will make my efforts more effective.

Sincerely yours,
[signed] V. Orval Watts

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V. O Watts: List of Positions

Antioch college
Yellow Springs
Ohio

May 3, 1932

Dear Miss Prescott:

I have just recalled that you asked me some time ago to send you a list of the positions I have held. If you wanted the list for the pamphlet which was being printed three weeks ago when I was in Cambridge it will be too late to send it now. But in case you may have a further use for it I am giving it herewith. You have my permission, however, to mention any or all of these titles if you wish.

1918-1919. Instructor, Brandon College, Canada
1919-1921. Assist. principal, Gilbert Plains High School, Gilbert Plains Canada.
1922-1923. Thayer Scholar, Harvard University
1924-1926. Instructor in Economics and Sociology, Clark University
1926-1927. Weld Scholar, Harvard University
1917-1929. Tutor in History, Government, and Economics, Harvard University
1929-1930. Lecturer in Economics and Sociology, Wellesley College
1930–. Assoc. Professor of Economics, Antioch College

As you may guess I am very anxious concerning the progress of my thesis through the gauntlet of the readers. I should very much appreciate it if I could obtain a hint of good news from the scene of action, but I suppose that the long list of theses presented this year is delaying the progress of all of them.

Yours sincerely,
[signed]
V. Orval Watts

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Passed Special Examination

The committee appointed to conduct the special examination of Mr. V. Orval Watts on Friday, May 27, 1932, voted unanimously to accept the examination. It was agreed by all three examiners that it was a brilliant examination..

Signed: T. N. Carver

* * * * * * * * * * * * * *

Antioch College informed
that Watts completed his Ph.D.

Antioch college
Yellow Springs
Ohio

Office of the President

June 6, 1932

Dr. T. N. Carver
Department of Economics,
Harvard University,
Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Dear Dr. Carver:

I thank you for your note about Mr. V. O. Watts. It is good to know that he did so well. His interest and enthusiasm in his work with us make his scholarly qualifications all the more productive.

Sincerely yours,
[signed] Arthur E. Morgan,
President.

AEM:HG

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Ohio State Not Hiring

the ohio state university
George W. Wrightmeyer, President
Columbus

DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMICS
M. B. Hammond	Alma Herbst
A. B. Wolfe	R. H. Rowntree
H. G. Hayes	J. D. Blanchard
H. F. Walradt	J. M. Whitsett
Grace S. M. Zorbaugh	H. J. Bittermann
F. E. Held	C. J. Botte
L. Edwin Smart	R. T. Stevens
E. L. Bowers	Louis Levine
R. L. Dewey	Maurice A. Freeman
C. L. James	R. L. Horne
R. D. Patton	Wm. H. Mautz
Louise Stitt	J. H. Sloan
Virgil Willit

June 6, 1932

Professor T. N. Carver
Department of Economics
Harvard University
Cambridge, Massachusetts

Dear Professor Carver:

I thank you for calling to my attention Mr. V. O. Watts, now teaching Economics at Antioch College. With your recommendation I do not doubt his ability to satisfy. However, the situation is about the same with us as it is at other western
institutions. We are not likely to make additions to the staff during the coming year. Those who are already employed are fighting hard to hold their jobs and there is a steady pressure on the part of graduate students to secure employment as assistants, readers, or in any other capacity, so that I do not anticipate any chance for Mr. Watts to find employment here. However, I will pass your letter to Dr. Bowers, who is acting chairman of the department, so that he can make use of it if there should be any change in the situation which calls for a new man.

I am, with best wishes,

Cordially yours,
[signed] M. B. Hammond

MBH:KU

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Record of V. O. Watts in the
Graduate School of Arts and Sciences.

1921-22	Course	Half-Course
Economics 9a		A
Economics 9b¹		A
Economics 11	B plus
Economics 32²		A
Economics 39²		A
German A	A minus


1922-23	Course	Half-Course
Economics 8	A
Economics 14	A minus
Economics 31	A
History 12	A minus

1923-24	Course	Half-Course
Economics 20

Source: Harvard University Archives. Division of History, Government & Economics, Ph.D. Degrees Conferred 1929-30. (UA V 453.270), Box 12.

__________________________

Course Names and Instructors

1921-22

Economics 9a ¹hf. Economics of Agriculture [primarily for undergraduates]. Professor Carver.

Economics 9b ¹hf. International Trade and Tariff Policies. Professor Taussig.

Economics 11. Economic Theory. Professors Taussig and Young.

Economics 32 ²hf. Economics of Agriculture [primarily for graduates]. Professor Carver.

Economics 39 ²hf. International Finance. Asst. Professor Williams.

German A. Elementary Course. Professor Bierwirth et al.

1922-23

Economics 8. Principles of Sociology. Professor Carver.

Economics 14. History and Literature of Economics to the year 1848. Professor Bullock.

Economics 41. Statistical Theory and Analysis. Professors Young and Day.

History 12. The History of England from 1688 to the Present Time. Professor Abbott.

1923-24

Economics 20. Course of Research in Economics.

Image Source: Portrait of Vervon Orval Watts in the Harvard Class Album, 1932.

Tags Carver, Taussig, Watts, Young

Economists Harvard

Harvard. Economics Ph.D. alumnus, Seymour Edwin Harris. 1926

Post author By Irwin Collier
Post date 2024-08-25

While this post still needs the course transcript from the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences at Harvard to be complete, there is enough information about the 1926 Harvard economics Ph.D. Seymour Edwin Harris for it to be added to our series “Meet an economics Ph.D. alumnus/alumna”.

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Biographical/Historical Note

Seymour Edwin Harris was born September 8, 1897 in New York City. He received an A.B. in 1920 and a Ph.D. in 1926 from Harvard University. From 1922 to 1964, Dr. Harris taught economics at Harvard University, where he received a full professorship in 1954, and served as the chairman of the department of economics from 1955 to 1959. During World War II, Dr. Harris was involved in several wartime planning projects. From 1954 to 1956, Dr. Harris became chief economic advisor to Adlai Stevenson. He then served Senator John F. Kennedy in the same capacity and was chosen as a member of President Kennedy’s task force on the economy. In 1961, Dr. Harris was named as chief economic consultant to Douglas Dillon, Secretary of the Treasury. During the Kennedy administration. Dr. Harris, a proponent of Keynesian economics, was a member of Walter W. Heller’s New Frontiersmen, which persuaded President Kennedy that the stimulation of the economy was more important than a balanced budget and tax cuts and government spending could counter threats of a recession. In 1963, Dr. Harris became the chairman of the department of economics at the University of California at La Jolla. At the same time, he served as a chief economic advisor to the Johnson administration.

Source: John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, Archives. Guide to the Seymour E. Harris Personal Papers.

_______________________

HARVARD UNIVERSITY
DIVISION OF HISTORY, GOVERNMENT, AND ECONOMICS

Application for Candidacy for the Degree of Ph.D.

[Note: Boldface used to indicate printed text of the application; italics used to indicate the handwritten entries]

I. Full Name, with date and place of birth.

Seymour Edwin Harris. Sept. 8, 1897; Brooklyn, N.Y.

II. Academic Career: (Mention, with dates inclusive, colleges or other higher institutions of learning attended; and teaching positions held.)

C.C.N.Y. – 1916-18. Harvard A.B. 1918-20.
Princeton – Instructor of Economics 1920-2.
Harvard – Tutor 1922-4.

III. Degrees already attained. (Mention institutions and dates.)

A.B. Harvard. 1920.

Economics A, 3, 5, 11, 33
History 1, 12, 32b
Government 1, 17B.
Latin – 2 years at college. Greek – 1 year. French – 2 years (college). German – 1 year.

V. Department of Study. (Do you propose to offer yourself for the Ph.D., “History,” in “Economics,” or in “Political Science”?)

Economics.

Economic Theory & History.
Economics A, 11 – as undergraduate – 14, 15
Money and Banking.
Economics 38
Two half courses at Princeton Grad. School. (Currency Reform & Monetary Histor of the U.S.)
Statistics.
Economics 41
Public Finance
Economics 31
American History.
History 32b (as Undergraduate)
& Private reading
[Left blank]

VII. Special Subject for the special examination.

Money and Banking with International Trade as a substitute field [committee: Professors Young (chairman), Taussig, Gay, and Monroe]

VIII. Thesis Subject. (State the subject and mention the instructor who knows most about your work upon it.)

Subject? [The Assignat]
Professor Young.

IX. Examinations. (Indicate any preferences as to the time of the general and special examinations.)

May 15, 1924
[March (early), 1926]

X. Remarks

I have not decided on any subject. At present, I expect to write in Theory, and I hope under Professor Young.

Signature of a member of the Division certifying approval of the above outline of subjects.

Allyn A. Young

* * * [Last page of application] * * *

[Not to be filled out by the applicant]

Name: S. E. Harris

Approved: April 2, 1924

Ability to use French certified by C. J. Bullock, 10 May 1923.

Ability to use German certified by C. J. Bullock, 10 May 1923.

Date of general examination April 29, 1924. Passed A.A.Y.

Thesis received March 5, 1926

Read by [left blank]

Approved [left blank]

Date of special examination [left blank]

Recommended for the Doctorate [left blank]

Degree conferred [left blank]

Remarks. [left blank]

* * * * * * * * * * * * * *

Certification of reading knowledge
of French and German for Ph.D.

HARVARD UNIVERSITY
DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMICS

Cambridge, Massachusetts
May 10, 1923

This is to certify that I have examined Mr. S.E. Harris and have found that he has such a knowledge of French and German as we require of candidates for the Ph.D. degree.

Very truly yours
[signed]
C. J. Bullock [K]

Dean D. H. Haskins

* * * * * * * * * * * * * *

Passed General Examination

HARVARD UNIVERSITY
DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMICS

Cambridge, Massachusetts
April 30, 1924

Dear Dean Haskins:

As Chairman of the Committee to conduct the general examination of S. E. Harris for the degree of Ph.D., I beg to report that Mr. Harris passed the examination. It was the opinion of the Committee that Mr. Harris’ showing was distinctly good, “better than the average”.

Yours sincerely,
[signed]
Allyn A. Young

Dean C. H. Haskins

[Note: The exam was held Tuesday, 29 April at 4 p.m. in Widener D. Committee: Professors Young, Crum, Bullock, Williams and Dr. Merk with Professor Persons substituting for Professor Crum at the examination.]

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Passed Special Examination

HARVARD UNIVERSITY
DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMICS

Cambridge, Massachusetts
March 12, 1926

To the Division of History, Government and Economics:

As chairman of the committee appointed to conduct the special examination of Mr. S. E. Harris for the degree of Ph.D. in Economics I beg to report that Mr. Harris passed a very creditable examination.

[signed]
Allyn A. Young

Source: Harvard University Archives. Division of History, Government & Economics, Ph.D. Degrees Conferred 1929-30. (UA V 453.270), Box 6.

Image Source: This particular portrait of Seymour E. Harris has been cropped from the 1934 Harvard Album. The identical portrait can be found already in the 1925 Harvard Album.

Tags Bullock, Gay, Harris, Monroe, Persons, Taussig, WilliamsJH, Young

Economists Harvard

Harvard. Application for PhD candidacy. Edward S. Mason, 1923

Post author By Irwin Collier
Post date 2024-05-30

Below you will find a transcription of the paper trail of Edward Sagendorph Mason that documents the satisfaction of the requirements for his Ph.D. in economics (Harvard, 1925).

Understatement is almost an art form in the hands of the chairman (Professor Frank W. Taussig) of Mason’s final doctoral examination that followed acceptance of his dissertation: “His showing was highly creditable, even brilliant”.

_______________________

HARVARD UNIVERSITY
DIVISION OF HISTORY, GOVERNMENT, AND ECONOMICS

Application for Candidacy for the Degree of Ph.D.

[Note: Boldface used to indicate printed text of the application; italics used to indicate the handwritten entries]

I. Full Name, with date and place of birth.

Edward Sagendorph Mason, Clinton, Iowa. Feb. 22, 1899.

II. Academic Career: (Mention, with dates inclusive, colleges or other higher institutions of learning attended; and teaching positions held.)

University of Kansas 1916-’19
Harvard (graduate school) one year 1919-’20
Oxford University (Lincoln College) 1920-’23

III. Degrees already attained. (Mention institutions and dates.)

A.B. Kansas 1919
M.A. Harvard 1920
B. Litt. Oxford 1923

30-40 hours in Economics (Theory – Econ. Hist. – Banking – Hist. of Theory)
Political theory – American government.
English History – Modern French History.
French – 3 years.
English literature – 20-30 hours.

V. Department of Study. (Do you propose to offer yourself for the Ph.D., “History,” in “Economics,” or in “Political Science”?)

Economics

Economic Theory. – Econ 11 at Harvard. Elementary and advanced courses at Kansas. – Reading and lectures in England and Germany.
History of Theory (from Plato & Aristotle). Elementary course at Kansas – Reading and lectures at Oxford
Statistics. – Graduate course at Harvard. Additional Reading.
Public Finance. – Graduate course at Harvard.
Economic History of England and the United States. – Elementary course in U.S. Econ. History at Kansas. Lectures and reading at Oxford.
American Government and Constitutional Law. – Elementary course in Am. Gov. at Kansas. Graduate course in Const. Law at Harvard. Additional reading.
International Trade.

VII. Special Subject for the special examination.

International Trade

VIII. Thesis Subject. (State the subject and mention the instructor who knows most about your work upon it.)

Dumping – A Study of Certain International Trade Practices. ~~England, Germany and the United States (B. Litt. Dissertation at Oxford in this subject. May submit same at Harvard.)~~
Professor Taussig.

IX. Examinations. (Indicate any preferences as to the time of the general and special examinations.)

General Examination. June 10th or after.
Special Examination. Next year.

X. Remarks

Attendance at Oxford makes it impossible for me to present myself before June 10th at the earliest.

Signature of a member of the Division certifying approval of the above outline of subjects.

[signed] F. W. Taussig

* * * [Last page of application] * * *

[Not to be filled out by the applicant]

Name: Edward S. Mason

Approved: May 28, 1923

Ability to use French certified by C. J. Bullock. Oct 3, 1923.

Ability to use German certified by C. J. Bullock. Oct. 3, 1923.

Date of general examination November 27, 1923. Passed. F.W. Taussig, ch[airman]

Thesis received 22 December 1924.

Read by Professors Taussig, Young, Williams.

Approved 14 January 1925.

Date of special examination 22 January 1925. Passed F.W.T.

Recommended for the Doctorate [left blank]

Degree conferred 24 February 1925

Remarks. [left blank]

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Record of E. S. Mason in the
Graduate School of Arts and Sciences

1919-20

Economics 11 [Economic Theory. Prof. Taussig]	A
Economics 31 [Public Finance, Prof. Bullock]	A minus
Economics 41 [Statistics: Theory and Analysis, Asst. Prof. Day]	B plus
Government 19 [American Constitutional Law, Mr. MacLeish]	A
A.M. 1920

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Dean not amused by late application

28 April 1923

My dear Mr. Mason:

Your application requesting for arrangements for a general examination this year has just been received. I am rather surprised that you should hand it in at such a late date and expect us to meke such arrangements. The list of examinations has been scheduled and printed for some weeks, and we cannot guarantee examinations for anyone after the first of June as it is exceedingly difficult to secure the presence of all the members of the examining comittee in Cambridge on the same day after the close of the lecture period. If you will indicate definitely the date of your return, which you mention vaguely in your letter, we shall try, however to arrange a committee for you at that time. Nothing can be promised, but we shall try to do what we can. I appreciate the convenience to you of taking the general examination this year, but I beg to remind you that due notice should be given of your plan of study and of your application for a general examination.

Very truly yours,
[unsigned carbon copy]

Edward S. Mason

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Mason responds to the Dean regarding an early date for his general examination

Lincoln College,
Oxford.

May 9, 1923.

Dean C. H. Haskins,
Harvard University.

My dear Sir –

If it is convenient for you and for the examiners I should like to take the Ph.D. general examination (Economics) on June 12th. I am writing to Professor Bullock, my examiner in French and German, asking to be allowed to present myself June 11th for the language examinations.

May I emphasize again that if it causes the slightest inconvenience to yourself or the examiners, I should very much like to have the examination postponed till October or November, since I intend to be at Harvard next year in any case.

Thanking you for the trouble you have taken.

I am,

Very Truly Yours,
[signed] Edward S. Mason

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Division Memo Regarding Planned General Examination (undated)

HARVARD UNIVERSITY
(INTER-DEPARTMENTAL CORRESPONDENCE SHEET)

Cambridge, Massachusetts

Edward S. Mason

June 10, or after.

[Taussig] Economic Theory
[Bullock] History of Theory (from Plato to Aristotle)
[Crum] Statistics
[Burbank] Public Finance
[Usher] Economic History of England and the United States
[Holcombe] American Government and Constitutional Law.

Special field: International Trade

Thesis being done with Professor Taussig.
Professor Taussig has signed the application.

HARVARD UNIVERSITY
Department of Economics

Cambridge, Massachusetts
January 27, 1925.

Dear Haskins:

I have to report that Edward S. Mason passed his special examination for the Ph.D. degree on Thursday, January 22, by unanimous vote of the Committee. His showing was highly creditable, even brilliant.

Very truly yours,
[signed]
F. W. Taussig

Dean C. H. Haskins

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Source: Harvard University Archives. Division of History, Government & Economics. PhD. Examinations, Box 6: 1924-26.

Image Source: Portrait of Edward S. Mason included in the Harvard Class Album 1932.

Tags Mason, Persons, Taussig, WilliamsJH, Young

Economists Harvard Transcript

Harvard. Application for PhD candidacy. James Waterhouse Angell, 1921

Post author By Irwin Collier
Post date 2024-01-18

The empirical questions behind most of the collection of archival artifacts found here at Economics in the Rear-view Mirror can be reduced to i) what was being taught ii) who was teaching it, and iii) what was the pattern of the courses actually taken by young economists. These artifacts can be thought of as occupying cell(s) in a matrix of year by academic institution, e.g. this post deals with question (iii) and will be filed in the Harvard, early 1920’s cell.

James Waterhouse Angell (1898-1986) was a Harvard and Chicago trained economist who joined the Columbia faculty upon receiving his Ph.D. from Harvard in 1924. He was a member of Columbia’s faculty for over forty years, interrupted by government service during World War II at the War Production Board and the Foreign Economics Administration. More about his life and career can be read in his New York Times obituary (April 1, 1986)

With this post we have the record for Angell in Harvard’s Division of History, Government, and Economics. It provides us with a wealth of information about his academic training. There will be a flow of such records for other graduate students that promises to match the flow of syllabi and exams, the stock of which constitute the core of archival material.

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Autobiographical snippet

Angell’s personal statement in the 25th year anniversary report of the Harvard Class of 1918

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HARVARD UNIVERSITY
DIVISION OF HISTORY, GOVERNMENT, AND ECONOMICS

Application for Candidacy for the Degree of Ph.D.

[Note: Boldface used to indicate printed text of the application; italics used to indicate the handwritten entries]

I. Full Name, with date and place of birth.

James Waterhouse Angell. May 20, 1898. Chicago.

II. Academic Career: (Mention, with dates inclusive, colleges or other higher institutions of learning attended; and teaching positions held.)

Undergraduate: Harvard 1914-18. Graduate: University of Chicago, March 1919-June 1920; Harvard, September 1920-date. Teaching: Assistant in Economics, Univ. of Chicago, October 1919-June 1920.

III. Degrees already attained. (Mention institutions and dates.)

A.B. Harvard, 1918. [magna cum laude]

IV. General Preparation. (Indicate briefly the range and character of your undergraduate studies in History, Economics, Government, and in such other fields as Ancient and Modern Languages, Philosophy, etc.) In case you are a candidate for the degree in History, state the number of years you have studied preparatory and college Latin.)

History. Harvard: Hist. A, 30a. Government. Univ. of Chicago: Elementary Comp. Govt. Economics. Harvard: Economics A, 2a, 2b, 4b, 5a, 5b. Univ. of Chicago: Labor Problems, Money and Banking, Statistics.

Greek: Harvard: Greek G, A, 2, 8. Latin. Harvard: Latin B, 8. French. Harvard: French 2. Philosophy. Univ. of Chicago: Social and Political Philosophy. Psychology. Harvard: Psychology A, Univ. of Chicago: Social Psychology.

V. Department of Study. (Do you propose to offer yourself for the Ph.D., “History,” in “Economics,” or in “Political Science”?)

Economics

Economic Theory and Its History. Harvard: Economics A, 11, 14; Univ. of Chicago: History of Econ. Thought. Teaching: Univ. of Chicago: 2 quarters of elementary theory, 1920.
Economic History since 1750. Harvard: Economics 2a and 2b.
Public Finance. Harvard: Economics 5a, 5b, 31
Money and Banking. Harvard: Economics 38. Univ. of Chicago: Elementary Money & Banking. Also private reading.
International Trade and Tariff Policy. Harvard: Economics 33; and private reading.
[Constitutional] History of the U.S., 1789-1914. Univ. of Chicago. 3 quarters of graduate study. (A. D. Mr. Laughlin)

VII. Special Subject for the special examination.

~~Special subject either Economic Theory or Public Finance; to be specified later.~~ Money and Banking

VIII. Thesis Subject. (State the subject and mention the instructor who knows most about your work upon it.)

International Price Levels (With Professors Taussig and Young)

IX. Examinations. (Indicate any preferences as to the time of the general and special examinations.)

General: Last week in October, 1921.

X. Remarks

[Left blank]

Signature of a member of the Division certifying approval of the above outline of subjects.

[signed] Edmund E. Day

* * * [Last page of application] * * *

[Not to be filled out by the applicant]

Name: James W. Angell

Approved: April 29, 1921

Ability to use French certified by Charles J. Bullock. 10 March, 1922 B.S.M.

Ability to use German certified by Charles J. Bullock, 10 March, 1922 B.S.M.

Date of general examination June 2, 1922 Passed A.A.Y.

Thesis received Oct. 15, 1923

Read by Professors Taussig, Young, and Persons

Approved October 29, 1921

Date of special examination Thursday, March 6, 1924. Passed A.A. Young

Recommended for the Doctorate[left blank]

Degree conferred [left blank]

Remarks. [left blank]

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Record of James Waterhouse Angell in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences of Harvard University

1920-21

Economics 11. [Economic Theory, Prof. Taussig]	A
Economics 14[History and Literature of Economics to the year 1848, Prof. Bullock]	A minus
Economics 31 [Public Finance, Prof. Bullock]	A
Economics 33¹ [half course] [International Trade and Tariff Problems, Prof. Taussig]	A
Economics 38² [half course] [Selected Monetary Problems, Prof. Young]	A

Attained the degree of Master of Arts.

Annotated Typescript for
Division of History, Government, and Economics
Examinations for the Degree of Ph.D. 1923-1924

JAMES WATERHOUSE ANGELL.

SPECIAL EXAMINATION in Economics, passed. Thursday, March 6, 1924.

GENERAL EXAMINATION passed June 2, 1922.

ACADEMIC HISTORY: Harvard College, 1914-18; University of Chicago, March, 1919, to June, 1920; Harvard Graduate School, 1920-23. A.B., 1918; A.M., 1921. Assistant in Economics, University of Chicago, 1919-20; Tutor in the Division of History, Government, and Economics, Harvard, 1921-22; Frederick Sheldon Travelling Fellow, Harvard, 1922-23; Instructor in Economics and Tutor in the Division of History, Government, and Economics, Harvard, 1923-4.

GENERAL SUBJECTS: 1. Economic Theory and Its History. 2. Economic History since 1750. 3. Public Finance. 4. Money and Banking. 5. International Trade and Tariff Policy. 6. American History since 1789.

SPECIAL SUBJECT: Money and Banking.

COMMITTEE: Professors Young (chairman), Taussig, Williams,
and Sprague.

THESIS SUBJECT: The Theory of International Prices and its History.

COMMITTEE ON THESIS: Professors Taussig, Young, and Persons.

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Image Source: James Waterhouse Angell’s July 18, 1922 U.S. passport application. National Archives.

Tags AngelJW, Bullock, Day, Persons, Taussig, Young

Statistics (Econ 4), previous years

Course Description 1910-11

Course Enrollment 1910-11

HARVARD UNIVERSITY ECONOMICS 4

Mid-year Examination, 1910-11

HARVARD UNIVERSITY ECONOMICS 4

Year-end Examination, 1910-11

Answer eight questions.

Course Descriptions for Economics and Social Ethics, 1920-21

One Harvard Graduate’s Memoir of the 1920s

ASSIGNED READINGS IN ECONOMICS

[ASSIGNED READINGS] IN SOCIAL ETHICS

Requesting approval of a mathematics minor in the General Examination

Request Granted

HARVARD UNIVERSITY DIVISION OF HISTORY, GOVERNMENT, AND ECONOMICS

Application for Candidacy for the Degree of Ph.D.

Postponing General Examination from Spring to Fall 1921

Draft of Planned General Examination Announcement (undated)

Certification of reading knowledge of French and German

Date and Place of General Examination

Committee of General Examination

General examination passed

Special Examination Date When exactly?

Request for Special Examination during week of April 12th

University of Michigan Ann Arbor School of Business Administration

Request to Confirm Special Examination during week of April 12th

University of Michigan Ann Arbor School of Business Administration

Date and Committee for Special Examination

Record of Olin Winthrop Blackett in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (2 November 1925)

1920-21

1921-22

1922-23

1923-24

Course Names and Instructors

1920-21

1921-22

1922-23, 1923-24

Olin Winthrop Blackett His life and career

Olin Winthrop Blackett, Obituary

Allyn Abbot Young, Ph.D. ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF POLITICAL ECONOMY.

1913-14

1914-1915

1915-1916

1916-1917

HARVARD UNIVERSITY DIVISION OF HISTORY, GOVERNMENT, AND ECONOMICS

Application for Candidacy for the Degree of Ph.D.

Certification of reading knowledge of French and German for Ph.D.

HARVARD UNIVERSITY Department of Economics

Miller provides title of his dissertation

General Exam Postponed

COPY

Request to Professors to join general examination committee

Copy

Bullock declares willingness to serve on the general exam committee

HARVARD UNIVERSITY Committee on Economic Research Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.A.

Usher declares willingness to serve on the general exam committee

THE COLLEGE OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY

525 Boylston Street Boston

Young available for the proposed dates of the general exams

Miller informed of date for his general examination

Copy

Passed General Examination

Dean Haskins asking Young about the general quality of Miller’s general exam

Copy

Supplementary Information for General Examination of H. E. Miller

Request to Prof. Vanderblue to join special examination committee

Copy

Request to Prof. Vanderblue to join special examination committee

Copy

Reminder to Young: special examination

HARVARD UNIVERSITY Division of history, Government, and Economics

Reminder to Miller: special examination

Copy

Passed Special Examination

Record of Harry Edward Miller

Course Names and Instructors

1919-20

1920-21

1921-23

Harry Edward Miller Timeline of his life and career

Course Description
1910-11

Course Enrollment
1910-11

HARVARD UNIVERSITY
ECONOMICS 4

HARVARD UNIVERSITY
ECONOMICS 4

Course Descriptions for
Economics and Social Ethics,
1920-21

One Harvard Graduate’s Memoir
of the 1920s

[ASSIGNED READINGS]
IN SOCIAL ETHICS

HARVARD UNIVERSITY
DIVISION OF HISTORY, GOVERNMENT, AND ECONOMICS

Certification of reading knowledge
of French and German

Special Examination Date
When exactly?

University of Michigan
Ann Arbor
School of Business Administration

University of Michigan
Ann Arbor
School of Business Administration

Date and Committee
for Special Examination

Record of Olin Winthrop Blackett in the
Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
(2 November 1925)

Olin Winthrop Blackett
His life and career

Allyn Abbot Young, Ph.D.
ASSISTANT PROFESSOR
OF POLITICAL ECONOMY.

HARVARD UNIVERSITY
DIVISION OF HISTORY, GOVERNMENT, AND ECONOMICS

Certification of reading knowledge
of French and German for Ph.D.

HARVARD UNIVERSITY
Department of Economics

HARVARD UNIVERSITY
Committee on Economic Research
Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.A.

THE COLLEGE OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION
OF
BOSTON UNIVERSITY

525 Boylston Street
Boston

Miller informed of date
for his general examination

Supplementary Information for
General Examination of H. E. Miller

HARVARD UNIVERSITY
Division of history, Government, and Economics

Harry Edward Miller
Timeline of his life and career

HARVARD UNIVERSITY
DIVISION OF HISTORY, GOVERNMENT, AND ECONOMICS

Certification of reading knowledge
of French and German for Ph.D.

HARVARD UNIVERSITY
Department of Economics

General Examination, date and
examiners
[carbon copy]

General Examination
Information Sent to Examiners
[carbon copy]

General Examination, Watts Reminder
[carbon copy]

General Examination, Carver Reminder
[carbon copy]

HARVARD UNIVERSITY
Department of Economics

Thesis summary still needed
[carbon copy]

Antioch college
Yellow Springs
Ohio

Antioch college
Yellow Springs
Ohio

Antioch college
Yellow Springs
Ohio

Antioch college
Yellow Springs
Ohio

Antioch college
Yellow Springs
Ohio

Antioch College informed
that Watts completed his Ph.D.

Antioch college
Yellow Springs
Ohio

the ohio state university
George W. Wrightmeyer, President
Columbus

Record of V. O. Watts in the
Graduate School of Arts and Sciences.

HARVARD UNIVERSITY
DIVISION OF HISTORY, GOVERNMENT, AND ECONOMICS

Certification of reading knowledge
of French and German for Ph.D.

HARVARD UNIVERSITY
DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMICS

HARVARD UNIVERSITY
DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMICS

HARVARD UNIVERSITY
DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMICS

HARVARD UNIVERSITY
DIVISION OF HISTORY, GOVERNMENT, AND ECONOMICS

Record of E. S. Mason in the
Graduate School of Arts and Sciences

Certification of reading knowledge
of French and German

HARVARD UNIVERSITY
Department of Economics

HARVARD UNIVERSITY
Department of Economics

Papers in order, so special examination
can take place

Date and committee
for special examination

HARVARD UNIVERSITY
Department of Economics