In the previous post we have the academic backstory found in Edward Hastings Chamberlin’s application to the economics graduate program at Harvard. This post provides the academic record of Chamberlin while a graduate student at Harvard. He entered Harvard with an M.A. degree in economics from the University of Michigan which probably is sufficient explanation for his seemingly light graduate coursework at Harvard.
Edward Hastings Chamberlin’s papers can be consulted at Duke University’s David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library’s Economists’ Papers Archive. It is interesting to note that he seems to have audited Allyn Young’s Ec 15 course (which does not appear on his graduate transcript) since notes to that course are included in Chamberlin’s papers.
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Ph.D. in Economics Awarded 1927
Edward Hastings Chamberlin, S.B. (State Univ. of Iowa) 1920, A.M. (Univ. of Michigan) 1922, A.M. (Harvard Univ.) 1924.
Subject, Economics. Special Field, Economic Theory. Thesis, “The Theory of Monopolistic Competition.”
Instructor in Economics and Tutor in the Division of History, Government, and Economics, Harvard University.
Source: Harvard University. Report of the President of Harvard College, 1926-1927, p. 102.
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THE GRADUATE SCHOOL OF ARTS AND SCIENCES
Record of Edward Hastings Chamberlin
Years: 1922-23, 1923-24, 1924-25, 1925-26, 1926-27
[Previous] Degrees received. Where? When?
S.B. State Univ. of Iowa 1920
A.M. Univ. of Michigan 1922
First Registration: 25 Sept. 1922
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1922-23 |
Grades | |
| First Year | Course |
Half-Course |
| Economics 11 |
A |
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| Economics 41 |
A- |
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| Division: Economics | ||
| Scholarship, Fellowship: | ||
| Assistantship: | ||
| Austin Teaching Fellowship: | ||
| Instructorship: | ||
| Proctorship: | ||
| Degree attained at close of year: | ||
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1923-24 |
Grades | |
| Second Year | Course |
Half-Course |
| Economics 14 |
inc./exc. |
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| Economics 23 |
exc. |
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| Government 6 |
exc. |
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| Marketing Problems |
85% |
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Passed General Exam. in Economics, |
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| Division: | ||
| Scholarship, Fellowship: Henry Lee Mem’l Fellow | ||
| Assistantship: | ||
| Austin Teaching Fellowship: | ||
| Instructorship: | ||
| Proctorship: | ||
| Degree attained at close of year: A.M. | ||
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1924-25 |
Grades | |
| Third Year | Course |
Half-Course |
| Economics 20 (A.A.Y.) |
— |
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| Division: | ||
| Scholarship, Fellowship: | ||
| Assistantship: | ||
| Austin Teaching Fellowship: | ||
| Instructorship: in Economics | ||
| Proctorship: | ||
| Degree attained at close of year: | ||
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1925-26 |
Grades | |
| Fourth Year | Course |
Half-Course |
| Economics 20 (A.A.Y.) |
A |
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| Division: | ||
| Scholarship, Fellowship: | ||
| Assistantship: | ||
| Austin Teaching Fellowship: | ||
| Instructorship: in Economics.
Tutor in the Div. of History, Government, and Economics |
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| Proctorship: | ||
| Degree attained at close of year: | ||
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1926-27 |
Grades | |
| Fifth Year | Course |
Half-Course |
| Economics 20 (A.A.Y.) |
A |
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| Division: | ||
| Scholarship, Fellowship: | ||
| Assistantship: | ||
| Austin Teaching Fellowship: $1500 | ||
| Instructorship: in Economics.
Tutor in the Div. of History, Government, and Economics $1200. |
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| Proctorship: | ||
| Degree attained at close of year: Ph.D. | ||
Source: Harvard University Archives. Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. Record Cards of Students, 1895-1930, Burtt—Cook. Record Card of Edward Hastings Chamberlin.
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Course Names and Instructors
Pro-tip for linking course numbers to course names and instructors.
Harvard University, Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Course of instruction. 1879-2009.
1922-23
Economics 11. Economic Theory. Professor Frank W. Taussig
Economics 41. Statistical Theory and Analysis. Professors Allyn Abbott Young and Edmund Ezra Day
1923-24
Economics 14. History and Literature of Economics to the year 1848. Professor Charles Jesse Bullock
Economics 23. Modern Economic History since 1750. Assistant Professor Abbott Payson Usher
Government 6. History of Political Theory. Professor Charles Howard McIlwain.
Marketing Problems. [First Year, First Half course at the Graduate School of Business Administration]
1924-27.
Economic Research. Graduate students pursuing research may register in the following course, which has the same status as any of the other graduate courses in Economics. Such research will be under the direction of members of the Department, and may lie within any of the fields recognized as appropriate for candidates for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy.
Economics 20. Professors Taussig, Carver, Ripley, Gay, Bullock, Young, and Persons. Members of the Faculty of the Graduate School of Business Administration will also guide research lying within their respective fields
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Image Source: Faculty picture of Edward H. Chamberlin from the Harvard Class Album, 1932.