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Reading the tribute published by colleagues at Berkeley for the statistician William Leonard Crum, one would come away with the impression that he was not just a nice man and good colleague, but that he was even a pretty, pretty good statistician. In fact Crum lagged the frontier of mathematical statistics by at least a full generation, cf. the 1945 href="https://www.i...
Third place in economics course enrollments at Harvard in 1909-10 was taken by the sop vocational course offered to undergraduates on the legal aspects of industrial relations that was taught by the law professor Bruce Wyman. First place was taken unsurprisingly by the Principles of Economics course and the second place by the Elements of Accounting course.
st...A memorandum written in 1973 by 64-year old Albert G. Hart shares his laments concerning the path taken by the Columbia University department of economics to what he saw to be a grievous neglect of instruction and research into the institutional nuts-and...
In 1954-55 the executive officer of the department of economics, Arthur R. Burns [not Art...
This post completes the collection of final exams for accounting taught at Harvard during the first decade of the 20th century. With an enrollment of 212 students, it helped to add a note of business practice to Harvard’s liberal arts curriculum.
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Earlier Accounting Exams at Harvard...
