Word: censuses
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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After his return to the East he became identified with the United States Geological Survey, on which he was chief geographer until 1902. He was the first secretary, and later president, of the National Geographic Society. He was geographer of the tenth, eleventh, and twelfth censuses, and assistant director of the Philippine census in 1902 and of the Cuban census in 1907. He wrote numerous scientific works, chiefly on geographical subjects...
Prominent among these is the Fogg Art Museum, which has just announced a special exhibit of famous paintings. A census of the students who will visit the Museum to see this collection, or, indeed who will visit it to see any collection, would undoubtedly bring out the fact that a pitifully small number of men are availing themselves of an opportunity which is at their very door. If there is a Harvard indifference, this is it, and in its worst form. Perhaps a better word for it is thoughtlessness...
...Assistant Commissioner of Corporations at Washington, taking a prominent part at that time in investigations of the Trusts. He was also active in conducting the government suits which resulted in the demolition of the Standard Oil and Tobacco Trusts. From 1910 to 1913, he was director of the Census, resigning on the advent of the present administration. His lectures will be open to the public...
Professor Dana Durand, former director of the United States Census, a graduate of Oberlin College, and author of the well-known "Finances of New York City," will lecture at Harvard sometime in April on the general subject of combinations and trusts. He will probably give four lectures. He is now professor at the University of Minnesota where he went after resigning his position as director of the United States Census. Professor Durand is a member of the American Economic Association, the American Political Science Association, and a contributor to various Economic Journals...
Professor B. H. Hibbard, of Iowa State College, at present in the Burean of Census at Washington, will lecture on "Agricultural Conditions in the Middle West," in Emerson D. this afternoon at 2.30 o'clock. The lecture will be illustrated with stereopticon sliders. It is one of the lectures for Economics 23, but will be open to the public...