I. Francis Amasa Walker Address by Hon. Carroll D. Wright: II. Bibliography of the Writings and Reported Addresses of Francis A. WalkerAmerican statistical association, 1897 - 46 pages |
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3d Session 41st Congress 46th Congress 75 cents Address delivered American Economic Association American Statistical Association Annual Report April Army Atlantic Monthly Bimetallism Boston Herald Boston Journal Bureau of Statistics CARROLL CARROLL D census of 1870 character College Commissioner of Indian Committee December DEWEY economist Education FALKNER February FRANCIS AMASA WALKER Hancock HENRY GANNETT House Ex Indian Affairs Indian Question Industrial Institute of Tech Institute of Technology International Statistical Institute January Journal of Economics July June knew Labor Statistics Loyal Legion March Massachusetts Massachusetts Institute MILES MENANDER DAWSON Miscellany Mortality National Ninth nology November Numbers October PH.D Political Economy Population Post New York President Walker President's Report Price Princeton Review printed separately PROF Published in Boston Quarterly Journal Reviews and Notices RICHMOND MAYO-SMITH SAMUEL W Schools scientific Secretary Springfield Republican statistician Superintendent Technology Quarterly Tenth Census tion tistics Vice-President Vital Statistics Wages Washington WRIGHT
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Page 260 - ... with solemn progression. Dead, dead, dead, he yet speaketh! Is Washington dead? Is Hampden dead? Is David dead? Is any man that ever was fit to live dead?
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Page 241 - It is concerned with him solely as a being who desires to possess wealth, and who is capable of judging of the comparative efficacy of means for obtaining that end.
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Page 241 - It predicts only such of the phenomena of the social state as take place in consequence of the pursuit of wealth. It makes entire abstraction of every other human passion or motive, except those which may be regarded as perpetually antagonizing principles to the desire of wealth, namely, aversion to labor, and desire of the present enjoyment of costly indulgences.
Page 251 - ... your office has only to prove itself superior alike to partisan dictation and to the seductions of theory, in order to command the cordial support of the press and of the body of citizens. If any mistake is more likely than others to be committed in such a critical position, it is to undertake to recognize both parties as parlies, and to award so much in due turn to each.
Page 251 - The country is hungry for information ; everything of a statistical character, or even of a statistical appearance, is taken up with an eagerness that is almost pathetic ; the community have not yet learned to be half skeptical and critical enough in respect to such statements.
Page 251 - Labor from politics, — from dependence on organizations, whether of workingmen or of employers, and from the support of economical theories, individual views or class interests, — as to command the moral support of the whole body of citizens, and receive the co-operation of all men of all occupations and of all degrees, without reference, however, either to their degrees or their occupations.
Page 238 - Rel'ations to Trade and Industry, 1879 ; Political Economy, 1883; Land and its Rent, 1883 ; History of the Second Army Corps, 1886 ; First Lessons in Political Economy, 1889 ; Life of Gen. WS Hancock, 1894 ; The Making of the Nation, 1895 ; International Bimetallism, 1896.
Page 269 - Pph., pp. 16. 1893. How Far Do the Technological Schools, as They Are at Present Organized, Accomplish the Training of Men for the Scientific Professions, and How Far and for What Reasons Do They Fail to Accomplish Their Primary Purpose? Address on opening Congress of Technological Instruction, Chicago, July 26.