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...Professor Burbank built up the most outstanding economics department in the country," said Seymour E. Harris '20, professor of Economics, before attending the funeral services for his friend yesterday afternoon. He was speaking of the late Harold Hitchings Burbank, David A. Wells Professor of Economics, who died last Tuesday...
John D. Black, Henry Lee Professor of Economics, added that Burbank had given the department "a more sincere effort than we could imagine" while he was chairman. Black felt that Burbank was the main factor in "making the department as strong...
Other faculty members in the School of Public Administration, joined in paying tribute to their friend and colleague. Arthur Smithies, professor of Economics, John K. Galbraith, professor of Economics, and Sumner H. Slichter, Lamont University Professor, agreed that Burbank contributed more to the teaching of economics in his 38 years with the University "than had been done until then." Burbank was one of the founders of the tutorial system...
...Burbank taught Economics here for 38 years and was chairman of that department for 18 years. His special field was finance. He had been one of the leading figures in the development of the tutorial system. When this method was established early in the administration of President Lowell, Burbank assisted in introducing it experimentally to the Department of History, Government, and Economics. He later was appointed chairman of the board of tutors in this division and served from...
Funeral services for Harold Hitchings Burbank, David A. Wells Professor of Political Economy, will be held at 3 p.m. this afternoon at the Memorial Church. Burbank died Tuesday night...