Word: briefe
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...next volume in Macmillan's Series of Economic Classes will be a translation of Turgot's "Reflections on the Formation and Distribution of Riches" (1770), by the editor of the series, Professor W. J. Ashley, of Harvard. This book is a brief and lucid statement of the doctrines of those writers who are regarded the creators of modern political economy. Hitherto it has been accessible only in a translation of 1793 which has been discovered to be inaccurate...
Although this brief and general course will be in some measure a comparative study of the writers named, each lecture will be intelligible in itself...
Lectures on Least Squares.A brief course of lectures on Least Squares will be given by Dr. F. H. Safford under the auspices of the Division of Mathematics, on successive Tuesdays and Thursdays at 2.30 p. m., in Sever 24, beginning February 15. These lectures will be open to members of the University only...
...Brief mention is made of the lives and services of the four officers of the University who died during the year,- Mr. George O. Shattuck of the Board of Overseers, Professor Lane, Professor Allen and Dr. Winsor...
...last of the readings given by the Cantabrigia Club for the Radcliffe College Scholarship Fund will be in Sanders Theatre at 8 o'clock this evening. Mr. John Fox, Jr., will give a brief talk on the southern mountaineer as New England's ally in the Civil War, and will read passages from "The Kentuckians"; "Courtin' on Cutshin'," "Hell fer Sartain," "A Trick o' Trade," "Preachin' on Kingdom Come," "The Passing of Abe Shivers," and "The Message on the Sand." Mrs. May Alden Ward will preside...