Economic essays

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Identifikator:: 1753623200

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-136107

Document type:: Monograph

Title:: Economic essays

Place of publication:: New York

Publisher:: Macmillan

Year of publication:: 1927

Scope:: viii, 368 S.; Ill., graph. Darst.

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Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: The early teaching of economics in the United States / Edwin R.A. Seligman

Collection:: Economics Books

290 ECONOMIC ESSAYS IN HONOR OF JOHN BATES CLARK Connecticut, in 1723, and became one of the outstanding thinkers of the time. The University of Oxford conferred upon him, in 1743, the degree of Doctor of Divinity, and he was soon recog- nized as a most learned and distinguished, as well as a liberal, thinker. When the college at Philadelphia was projected in 1749, Franklin endeavored, but without success, to induce him to take charge of the nascent institution. When, a few years later, Kings College was planned, in New York, the promoters turned to him as the most erudite scholar in the colonies, and he was finally persuaded to accept the presidency. In 1754, the first year of the college, he constituted the entire faculty, and as his salary of £250 was clearly inadequate, he was made assistant minister of Trinity Church; at an additional stipend of £150. Dr. Johnson had written for his sons compendia of Logic and of Ethics, subsequently published in one volume in 1752 for the use of the students at the new college in Philadelphia. He was from the outset much interested in economic questions and in 1754 he prepared an advertisement, which was published in the papers, addressed “to such parents as have now (or expect to have) children prepared to be educated in the College of New York.” After descanting on the advantages of a sound moral and religious education and adjuring the parents to refrain from exhibiting themselves as “examples of impiety or profane- ness or of any sort of vice whatsoever,” he proceeded to explain his provision for “a serious, virtuous and industrious course of life.” It is the design of the college, he tells us, “to instruct and perfect the youth in the learned languages, and the arts of reason- ing exactly, of writing correctly, and of speaking eloquently.” Then follow the arts “of geography, of history, of husbandry, commerce and government.” Finally, after adverting to the knowledge of nature, he adds the knowledge “of everything use- ful for the comfort, the convenience, and the elegance of life, in the chief manufactures relating to any of these things.” * What was done in order to carry out this comprehensive plan we do not know in detail. It is a fact, however, that Mr. Tread- well—who had been appointed a few years earlier to teach the senior class in “mathematiks and natural phylosophy”’—began his instruction in those subjects in 1757. It is possible that, in ! The advertisement is printed in full in A History of Columbia Univer- sity, 1764-1904. New York, 1904, p. 444. BL 4

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