Papers of Allyn Abbott Young, 1898-1927.

Harvard University

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Harvard College was founded by a vote of the Great and General Court of Massachusetts on October 28, 1636 that allocated “400£ towards a schoale or colledge.” Subsequent legislative acts established the Board of Overseers, but it was the Charter of 1650 that created the Harvard Corporation as the College's primary governing board and defined its composition and authority. The College Charter became a contentious target for College officials, the Massachusetts Governor and General C...

Harvard university. Department of economics

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Hoover, Herbert, 1874-1964

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Herbert Clark Hoover (b. August 10, 1874, Iowa-d. October 20, 1964), thirty-first president of the United States, was born in Iowa, and was orphaned as a child. A Quaker known from his childhood as "Bert" to his friends, he began a career as a mining engineer soon after graduating from Stanford University in 1895. Within twenty years he had used his engineering knowledge and business acumen to make a fortune as an independent mining consultant. In 1914 Hoover administered the American Relief Com...

Young, Allyn Abbott, 1876-1929

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Young taught economics at Harvard. From the description of Papers of Allyn Abbott Young, 1898-1927. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 76972944 William Schley Howard, 1875-1951, was an attorney and congressman. From the description of Allyn Abbott Young letter : to William Schley Howard, 1916. (Cornell University Library). WorldCat record id: 77010640 ...