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.

Digitisation:: 2021

Collection:: Economics Books

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DINNER IN HONOR OF PROFESSOR JOHN BATES CLARK 355 he shares my regret at the loss of those eighty speeches. The fact that we are not going to have eighty speeches deprives this occasion of one of the characteristics of excellence to which I looked forward, my dear Chairman, with some anticipation. I was called upon a few weeks ago to take the chair at a dinner in this speech-stricken town, where I was handed a list of seventeen speakers and was assured that no one would speak more than two minutes. We discontinued the order of exercises at quarter of two in the morning, when a certain number of the seventeen had begged to be excused. I can begin my tribute to my long-time friend and colleague, Professor Clark, by paying a tribute to one of his associates and mine, whom I hold in the deepest affection and esteem, as an old teacher, as an intellectual guide, as a personal friend, and as a colleague for a generation, whose letter I hold in my hand. Professor Burgess has written this letter with the suggestion that I read it to this company and Professor Clark: Your letter of January 19, forwarded from Newport, reached me yesterday and found prompt and sympathetic response of my own feelings. I yield to no one among our colleagues in appreciation of Professor John Bates Clark, as a scholar and a gentleman. I have the honor to be an alumnus of the same college with him, to have joined as a member of the Board of Trustees of our Alma Mater in extending to him the invitation to the Chair of Political Economy in that Institution, and then as Dean of the Faculty of Political Science at Columbia, to have initiated his call to the Chair of Political Economy in this university. For a quarter of a century I was almost daily witness to that rare and refined scholarship, that modest and courteous demeanor, that honest and conscientious dealing which have marked his distinguished career throughout its epoch and there is no man among those with whom he has lived and labored to whom it would give more genuine pleasure to grasp his hand as he crosses the frontier of the eighties, than my humble self. Failing strength forbids my effort to be with you in physical person upon this highly interesting occasion. I, also, have crossed the frontier and have left it some distance behind and am obliged to acclimate myself to the limitations which age imposes. I shall be there, however, every moment of the time in spirit and shall await with intense and impatient interest the account of the occasion. Please extend to my friend my most cordial greeting and congratulations and say to him for me that while I pen these lines there comes the thought, or rather the query to me whether the day may be reserved for my dis- embodied spirit from some far-off star of higher culture in this vast universe of mind to extend the hand of welcome to spirits such as his and those with whom we have labored for civilization, as has been my great privilege here. If such shall be the case, then will the riddle of existence have been solved for me and a paradise for which I have longed and hoped and prayed, been attained. Faithfully and affectionately, your friend and colleague, JorN WimLiaM BURGESS. It would be difficult, Mr. Chairman, to put into ten thousand words a more gracious, a more intimate, or a more just appreciation of the life and work of our friend, Dr. Clark. We so rarely have the courage to speak kindly of a man while he lives, that it is particularly gratifying to be able on an occasion like this, to say just what is in one’s mind and heart. Man

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