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President Lowell and Frank William Taussig, two of the University's greatest men, were honored with the unveiling of portrait busts in the Littauer Center library on Saturday. The bronze casts were the work of the well-known sculptures, Evelyn Beatrice Lobgman...
Died. Dr. Frank W. Taussig, 80, for 53 years teacher of economics at Harvard, one of the founders of Harvard's Graduate School of Business Administration, first U. S. Tariff Commission chairman, author of textbooks from which many a college student tried to learn economics; at Cambridge, Mass...
...article for the Boston Herald about Professor Taussig, A. Lawrence Lowell '77, President-exeritus, said last night, "A great teacher has passed away in the ripeness of years, but his works remain as his true memorial... More, perhaps, than any other teacher, he may be called the parent of modern American economic thought...
Commenting about Professor Taussig's prominent position in the Economics Department here, Harold H. Burbank, David A. Wells Professor of Political Economy, said, "He very clearly was regarded by most of us here and by the world at large as the outstanding economist of his time...
...years after going through both the Graduate and Law Schools, Professor Taussig published his "Tariff History of the United States," which still is a standard work on the subject. Later came his "Silver Situation in the U. S.," "Wages and Capital," and a series of more specialized works...