Download or read book Harvard College in the Seventeenth century written by Samuel Eliot Morison and published by . This book was released on 1936 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Harvard College in the Seventeenth Century written by Samuel Eliot Morison and published by . This book was released on 1935 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Harvard College in the Seventeenth Century written by Samuel Eliot Morison and published by . This book was released on 1935 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Founding of Harvard College written by Samuel Eliot Morison and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1963 with total page 594 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Morison here traces the roots of American universities in Europe, as they have perhaps never been traced before; and with mellow erudition, frequent flashes of wit, and a lively contemporary perspective, he sketches in a realistic picture of the founding of the first American university north of the Rio Grande.

Download or read book Harvard College in the Seventeenth Century written by Samuel Eliot Morison and published by . This book was released on 1936 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Harvard College in the Seventeenth century written by Samuel Eliot Morison and published by . This book was released on 1936 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Harvard College in the Seventeenth Century Parts One and Two written by Samuel Eliot Morison and published by . This book was released on 1936 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Three Centuries of Harvard 1636 1936 written by Samuel Eliot Morison and published by . This book was released on 1936 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Harvard College in the Seventeenth Century Part II The Tercentennial History of Harvard College and University 1636 1936 written by Samuel Eliot Morison and published by . This book was released on 2014-04-13 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Out of Smalle Beginnings written by Margery Somers Foster and published by Belknap Press. This book was released on 1962 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With its pleasant perspective on the American past, this book is a relevant document for higher education today. Government aid to universities, for example, has an early precedent in the grant of "£4OO towards a schoale or colledge" by the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1636. This is the first recorded notice of the institution which was to become Harvard University, and significantly, Margery Somers Foster comments, "it is a notice concerned with finance." Harvard College in the seventeenth century was one of America's largest and most continuous economic enterprises. Its financing is a record of resourceful extemporization. Harvest time was a period for paying bills with corn or wheat made legal tender at varying rates. How the College looked upon "country pay" or "commodity money" may be understood in the phrase, "Cash received...Should be £5 per annum, but, being paid in money, £4 accepted." And "bookkeeping barter," in which one commodity was traded for another rather than used directly as money, might involve the College in accepting a cow for tuition: Harvard does not want the animal, but the College is in debt to someone who can use the cow. Obtaining funds from what was at first hardly more than a subsistence economy, the College attempted to derive from them some reliable income. The instability, as well as the inadequacy, of investments necessitated repeated community support. One of the most important gifts was the "College corn"--the "fourth part of a bushell of Corne, or somethinge equivalent thereunto," given yearly by every family in New England, "which is able and willing," for scholarship assistance to "poor, pious, and learned" students. Another source of income came from the receipts of the ferry running between Charlestown and Boston; between 1640 and 1712 this operation contributed over three thousand pounds to the College, although some of the money received was "bad" or counterfeit wampum. By 1712 the growing endowment income had significantly stabilized and improved the running of the College. Though seventeenth-century Harvard was tiny compared with modern colleges or universities, it was proportional in its size to the population of its time, and its economic influence in the community was at least as important as that of present-day educational institutions. Foster's study is a significant contribution to economic and business history. Using the long and detailed financial reports she has made for the College she is able to illustrate the behavior of money (or lack of money) and prices when America was at the beginning of its economic development. Her "historic multiplier" allows real values--such as the faculty salaries of Colonial Harvard--to be compared with those of today.

Download or read book Harvard College in the 17th Century written by Samuel Eliot Morison and published by . This book was released on 1936 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Virginians and Marylanders at Harvard College in the Seventeenth Century written by Samuel Eliot Morison and published by . This book was released on 1933 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Out of Smalle Beginings written by Margery Somers Foster and published by Belknap Press. This book was released on 1962 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Harvard College in the seventeenth century was one of America's largest and most continuous economic enterprises. Its financing is a record of resourceful extemporization. This is the first recorded notice of the institution which was to become Harvard University, and significantly, Margery Somers Foster comments, "it is a notice concerned with finance."

Download or read book The New England Merchants In The Seventeenth Century written by Bernard Bailyn and published by Read Books Ltd. This book was released on 2013-03-05 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In detail Bailyn here presents the struggle of the merchants to achieve full social recognition as their successes in trade and in such industries as fishing and lumbering offered them avenues to power. Surveying the rise of merchant families, he offers a look in depth of the emergence of a new social group whose interests and changing social position powerfully affected the developing character of American society.

Download or read book Harvard College in the Seventeenth Century written by Samuel Eliot Morison and published by . This book was released on 1936 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Tercentennial History of Harvard College and University 1636 1936 written by Samuel Eliot Morison and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Out of Smalle Beginings written by Margery Somers Foster and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Harvard College in the seventeenth century was one of America's largest and most continuous economic enterprises. Its financing is a record of resourceful extemporization. This is the first recorded notice of the institution which was to become Harvard University, and significantly, Margery Somers Foster comments, "it is a notice concerned with finance."