Word: americas
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Theory and History of Banking," and the compiler of the "Laws of the United States on Currency and Banking." He frequently contributed articles to the Quarterly Journal of Economics, as well as to other magazines, and he was, for a time, president of the Economic Association of America. He was a member of the Massachusetts Historical Society, a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a holder of the degree of LL.D. from Harvard...
...cultivated sugar-cane is grown wholly from cuttings or "sets," as they are called, and this practice has been carried on from time immemorial, until now the plants have ceased to produce fertile seeds. It happens occasionally in South and Central America, that a little seed is produced by artificial crossing, but, as a rule, the plants raised from these seeds are not much, if any, better than those from the cuttings. In Java, successful attempts have been made to carry the pollen from the flowers to such stigmas as are receptive, and the results have been excellent. These experiments...
Professor Beale will give a new half course during the second half year on the History of Crime in England and America. The course, which is officially known as History 29, will have but one two hour session a week, at a period to be decided later. The work will consist of lectures, reports and discussions, and investigation of special topics...
...purchase of Scandinavian books or books relating to Scandinavia." As it is Mrs. Hammer's intention to present the same amount annually to the University for this purpose, there is good reason to believe that in time the Harvard Library will contain the best collection of Scandinavian books in America...
...Morris and James Loeb. For the purchase of works printed in America in the Judaes-German dialect...