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Harvard University Press

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Harvard University Press was established by the Harvard Corporation as a separate department of the University on January 13, 1913. It acted as both a printing and academic publishing organization until 1942, when the University Printing Office was re-established as a separate unit and Harvard University Press became responsible for only publishing activities. The press maintains offices in Cambridge, Massachusetts and in London, England. Every book published by the HUP must undergo review by an...

Harvard University

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Harvard College was founded by a vote of the Great and General Court of Massachusetts on October 28, 1636 that allocated “400£ towards a schoale or colledge.” Subsequent legislative acts established the Board of Overseers, but it was the Charter of 1650 that created the Harvard Corporation as the College's primary governing board and defined its composition and authority. The College Charter became a contentious target for College officials, the Massachusetts Governor and General C...

American Academy of Arts and Sciences

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The American Academy of Arts and Sciences was chartered by the legislature of Massachusetts in 1780 and is the second oldest learned society in the U.S. Among its incorporators were James Bowdoin, John Adams, Samuel Adams, and John Hancock. From the description of Records of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1775-1800 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 122413111 ...

Humphrey, Hubert H. (Hubert Horatio), 1911-1978

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Hubert Horatio Humphrey Jr. (May 27, 1911 – January 13, 1978) was an American politician who served as the 38th vice president of the United States from 1965 to 1969. He twice served in the United States Senate, representing Minnesota from 1949 to 1964 and 1971 to 1978. He was the Democratic Party's nominee in the 1968 presidential election, losing to Republican nominee Richard Nixon. Born in Wallace, South Dakota, Humphrey attended the University of Minnesota. At one point he helped run his ...

American Philosophical Society

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Benjamin Franklin founded the American Philosophical Society in 1743 in Philadelphia, patterning it after the Royal Society of London. It's purpose was the promotion of the study of science and the practical arts of agriculture, engineering trades, and manufactures. Subjects of today's "philosophy" were generally excluded from the societies of the 17th and 18th centuries and the word "philosophy" meant to them "love of knowledge," and was essentially the equivalent of today's "science." Interest...

Papi, Ugo

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Inkeles, Alex, 1920-....

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Educator, sociologist. From the description of Reminiscences of Alex Inkeles : oral history, 1985. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122528753 American sociologist. From the description of Alex Inkeles papers, 1941-2003. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 754872157 Biographical/Historical Note Born in Brooklyn, New York, Inkeles received an A.B. degree in 1941 and an A.M. ...

Handlin, Oscar, 1915-2011

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Handlin taught history at Harvard and was Director of the Harvard University Library from 1979 to 1984. From the description of Papers of Oscar Handlin, 1958-1984 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 76973327 Handlin earned his Harvard AM in 1935 and his PhD in 1940. He taught history at Harvard and was Director of the Harvard University Library from 1979 to 1984. From the description of The evolution of national character in America, 1861-1875 ...

Smithies, Arthur

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Arthur Smithies (1907-1981) joined the Harvard faculty as Professor of Economics, after teaching in the department of Economics at Michigan during and after World War II. He was named Nathaniel Ropes Professor of Political Economy in 1957 and served as the Chairman of the Economics Department from 1950 to 1955 and from 1959 to 1961. From the description of Papers of Arthur Smithies, 1930-1981 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 76977392 ...

Gerschenkron, Alexander.

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Gerschenkron (1901-1978) taught economics at Harvard. From the description of Papers of Alexander Gerschenkron, 1940-1978 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 76973325 ...

Harvard University. Russian Research Center

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The Russian Research Center was established in 1948 to encourage and support scholarly study of the Soviet Union and related areas. A major project undertaken by the center in the late 1940's and early 1950's, originally known as the "Russian Refugee Interview Project" became better known as the Harvard Project on the Soviet Social System. In April 1996, the Russian Research Center was renamed the Kathryn W. and Shelby Cullom Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies. From the de...

Miller, John Perry, 1911-1997

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John Perry Miller, economist and academic administrator, was born in Lynn, Massachusetts, on March 26, 1911. The son of Fred and Hilda Wagner Miller, he was educated at Harvard University, receiving his B.A. in 1932, M.A. in 1934, and Ph.D. in 1937. He joined the Yale faculty as visiting lecturer in Economics in 1939, after teaching briefly at Harvard and Princeton. Miller was appointed professor of economics in 1950, and later served as director of Social Sciences from 1959 to 1961. He was name...

Galbraith, John Kenneth, 1908-2006

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Galbraith taught economics at Harvard. From the description of Papers of John Kenneth Galbraith, 1958. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 76973248 John Kenneth Galbraith was born in Iona Station, Ontario, Canada in 1908. He emigrated to the United States in 1931 and became an American citizen in 1937. He received degrees from Ontario Agricultural College (1931), University of California (1933, 1934), and studied at Cambridge, England (1937-38). His academic career has...

Cameron, Rondo E.

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Rondo Emmett Cameron was born in 1925 in Linden, Texas and died in 2001 in Atlanta, Georgia. He earned his BA and MA from Yale University in 1948 and 1949 respectively, and received the PhD from the University of Chicago in 1952. Dr. Cameron taught at Yale University (1951-1952) and the University of Wisconsin-Madison (1952-1956, 1957-1961, 1961-1969). He served as Visiting Professor of Economics, University of Chicago (1956-1957), Fulbright Visiting Professor, University of Glasgow (1962-1963),...

Leontief, Wassily, 1906-1999

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Leontief taught economics at Harvard. From the description of Papers of Wassily Leontief, 1920?-1968 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 76973094 ...

Economic History Society.

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The Economic History Society was inaugurated at a general meeting held at the London School of Economics on 14 July 1926. R H Tawney took the chair and, after the resolution to form the Society had been carried unanimously, the meeting discussed the constitution and aims of the Society and proceeded to elect its first officers, with Sir William Ashley as the first President. The publication of the Economic History Review was also discussed and R H Tawney and Mr Lipson were appointed as joint edi...

Pusey, Nathan M. (Nathan Marsh), 1907-2001

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Nathan Marsh Pusey (1907-2001) was the twenty-fourth president of Harvard University from 1953 to 1971. He was also president of Lawrence College (1944-1953), president of The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation (1971-1975), and president of the United Board for Christian Higher Education in Asia (1978-1983). Pusey's tenure as president was defined by new building construction, greater fundraising, and struggles with student protestors. From the description of Papers of Nathan Marsh Pusey, 1...

Janeau, M.

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Macleish, Archibald

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Archibald MacLeish (1892-1982) was an American poet. Kaiser is a professor of comparative literature at Harvard. From the description of Letters to Walter Jacob Kaiser, 1955-1957 and undated. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 612367921 MacLeish (1892-1982) was a Pulitzer Prize winning American poet, playwright, teacher, librarian of Congress, and public official. He was also Boylston professor at Harvard (1949-1962). From the description of Scratch : manu...

Cole, Arthur Harrison, 1889-1974

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Cole was an economic historian, professor of business economics, and librarian. He taught at the Harvard University Graduate School of Business Administration from 1916-1956; and served as Administrative Curator and Librarian of Baker Library from 1929-1956. From the description of Arthur Harrison Cole papers, 1926-1960. (Harvard Business School). WorldCat record id: 75958043 Cole (1889-1974) (Harvard, Ph.D., 1913) taught economics and was librarian at Baker Library, Harvard...

Harris, Seymour Edwin, 1897-1974

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Epithet: Professor of Harvard University, economist British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001123.0x00033e Seymour Edwin Harris (Sept. 8, 1897 - Oct. 27, 1974), economist, teacher, author, and public servant, was born in New York City, the son of Augusta Kulick and Henry Harris. He received his B.A. from Harvard in 1920 and his Ph.D. from Harvard in 1926. His doctoral dissertation was awarded the David A. Wells Prize ...

World Bank

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