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Harvard. Carver’s Economics of Agriculture Final Examination, 1918

 

 

Enrollment data and the course outline with reading assignments for Thomas Nixon Carver’s one-semester course “Economics of Agriculture” have been previously posted. We can add to this now the course description that comes from the History, Government and Economic Division’s 1917 announcements and also the final examination for the course from 1917-18.

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Course Announcement and Description

Economics 9 1hf. Economics of Agriculture. Half-course (first half-year.)
Mon., We., and (at the pleasure of the instructor) Fri., at 10.
Professor Carver, assisted by Mr.—.

A study of the relation of agriculture to the whole industrial system, the conditions of rural life, the forms of land tenure, the comparative merits of large and small holdings, the status and wages of farm labor, the influence of farm machinery, farmers’ organizations, the marketing and distribution of farm products, agricultural credit, the policy of the government toward agriculture, and the probably future of American agriculture.

 

Source: Division of History, Government, and Economics 1917-18 published in Official Register of Harvard University, Vol. XIV, No. 25 (May 18, 1917), p. 62.

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Final Examination
Economics of Agriculture
Professor Thomas Nixon Carver

1917-18
HARVARD UNIVERSITY

ECONOMICS 91

 

  1. Describe some of the principal contrasts between rural and urban industry.
  2. What were the advantages of the three-field over the two-field system?
  3. What were the main features of the Homestead Act?
  4. Give a brief account of the rise of the Granger movement.
  5. Under what circumstances is it desirable to turn from extensive to intensive cultivation?
  6. What are the advantages of selling on grade rather than on inspection?
  7. What is meant by a standardized security as a basis for rural credit, what are its advantages, and how is it provided for under our Federal farm loan system?
  8. What are some of the social needs of the average rural community?
  9. What are the principal areas of production in the United States of the following crops: Spring wheat, winter wheat, potatoes, wool, beet sugar, cane sugar, peanuts?
  10. Is tenancy increasing or decreasing in the United States as a whole? Where is it increasing most rapidly and what are the principal reasons for its increase?

 

Source: Harvard University Archives. Harvard University. Final Examinations, 1853-2001 (HUC 7000.28, Box 60 of 284). Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Papers Set for Final Examinations: History, History of Religions, … , Economics, … , Fine Arts, Music, June, 1918.

Image Source: Thomas Nixon Carver, Harvard Class Album 1920.