“Out of Smalle Beginnings…” : : An Economic History of Harvard College in the Puritan Period (1636–1712) /

“Out of Smalle Beginnings…” : : An Economic History of Harvard College in the Puritan Period (1636–1712) / / Margery Somers Foster.

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 fir...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP e-dition: Complete eBook Package
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Foster, Margery Somers,
Place / Publishing House:Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2013]
©1962
Year of Publication:2013
Edition:Reprint 2014
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (243 p.) :; 9 halftones, 8 line illustrations, 38 tables
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • PREFACE
  • CONTENTS
  • TABLES
  • FIGURES
  • ILLUSTRATIONS
  • ABBREVIATIONS USED IN NOTES
  • I. THE GENERAL SETTING
  • II . HARVARD FINANCIAL RECORDS IN THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY
  • III. ECONOMIC VALUES IN PURITAN NEW ENGLAND
  • IV. INCOME FROM STUDENTS
  • V. GOVERNMENT AID
  • VI. INCOME FROM GIFTS, FROM ENDOWMENT, AND SUMMARY OF ALL INCOME
  • VII. ANALYSIS OF DISBURSEMENTS
  • VIII. ASSETS
  • IX. OVERVIEW
  • Appendices
  • BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • NOTES
  • INDEX

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