| PROFESSOR |
CATALOGUE DESCRIPTION |
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| 1913 | SUMMER | ||
| Economics s112 | Money and Banking | C. D. Agger |
Will give the student a knowledge of the
evolution, history and theory of money and banking with
special emphasis on the experience and needs of the United
States. Special reports on selected topics will be
required from all the members of the class. |
| Economics s120 | Corporation Finance | Benjamin M. Anderson, Jr. |
A study of the financial operations of
corporations, covering methods of raising capital, stock
watering and its control, the creation and investment of a
surplus, sinking funds, the dividend policy and the types
of securities with reference to their market value. |
| Sociology s102 |
Principles of Sociology, Historical |
Franklin Henry Giddings |
The main outlines of historical
sociology are so presented as to constitute an
introduction to the study of social evolution and the
theory of progress. |
| 1913-1914 | ACADEMIC YEAR |
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| Economics 101 | Science of Finance | Edwin R. A. Seligman |
Historical, as well as comparative and
critical. General introduction and history of science of
finance. Different kinds of public revenues, including
public domain and public property, public works and
industrial undertakings, fees and special assessments.
General theories and principles of taxation, incidence of
taxation and newer social theories of taxation. |
| Economics 102 |
Science of Finance |
Edwin R. A. Seligman |
Application of general principles to
consideration of actual systems of taxation. Practical
American problems of federal, state and local taxation,
and their inter-relations. Classes of public expenditure
and fiscal principles which govern them. Public debt,
methods of borrowing, redemption, refunding, repudiation,
etc. Fiscal organization of state by which revenue is
collected and expended. Budget, national, state and local. |
| Economics 125 | The Economic Problems of Germany | Karl F. Th. Rathgen |
In this course the Kaiser Wilhelm Professor
for 1913-1914 will discuss the German economic problems
that he deems most interesting to American students. |
| Economics 201 | Econ. Readings: Classical English Economists | Henry Rogers Seager |
Principal theories of English economists
from Adam Smith to John Stuart Mill. Lectures, assigned
readings and reports, and discussions. Wealth of
Nations, Malthus's Essay on Population,
bullion controversy of 1810, corn law controversy of 1815,
and treatises on Political Economy of Ricardo,
Senior, and John Stuart Mill. |
| Economics 207 | Principles and Methods of Statistics | Robert Emmet Chaddock |
Elementary principles of statistics and
application. Study of how to gather, present and interpret
statistical data. Averages, index-numbers, measures of
variation from average, and principles of graphic method.
Applidation of principles is required through laboratory
exercises, and effort is made to acquaint student with
best sources of information. |
| Economics 210 | Social Statistics | Robert Emmet Chaddock |
Presupposes knowledge of elementary
principles and processes. Social statistics, beginning
with study of vital statistics and population in light of
data afforded by official publications and special
investigations and extending discussion into special
social and economic problems. Laboratory exercises
designed to apply principles and methods, and to render
students familiar with sources of information. |
| Economics 204 | History of Economics since Adam Smith | Edwin R. A. Seligman |
Chief writers discussed: (1) English
Classical School; (2) Early British Socialists; (3)
Continental Development to 1870; (4) Early American
Writers; (5) German Historical School; (6) Socialists; (7)
Austrian School; (8) Leading Contemporary Economists. |
| Sociology 151 | Principles of Sociology--Analytical | Alvan A. Tenney |
Analysis of environmental and psychological
factors which condition social organization. Examination
of direct and indirect influences of climate, topography
and natural resources upon society. Theoretical and
practical significance of sympathy, interest, suggestion,
imitation, invention, tradition, ideals and leadership,
for rational control of social organization and attainment
of social progress. |
| Sociology 256 | Social Statistics | Robert Emmet Chaddock |
[A different rubric for Economics 210,
"Social Statistics."] |
| Economics 205 | Economic Theory | John B. Clark |
Lectures on "Conditions of Economic
Progress" will discuss types of competition, phases of
monopoly and different plans for dealing with it--all with
special reference to progression in industry. They
presuppose acquaintance with his Essentials of
Economic Theory and The Distribution of Wealth. |
| Economics 206 |
Economic Theory | Benjamin M. Anderson, Jr | Lectures on "The Theory of Value" will
begin with study of value problem, and then treat, in
light of conclusions reached, certain related theoretical
problems and concepts, such as capital and income, theory
of money, and some aspects of distribution. |
| Economics 106 | The Trust & Corporation Problem | Henry Rogers Seager |
Trust problem as presented in United
States. Rise and progress of industrial combinations,
forms of organization and policies of typical
combinations, common law and trusts, anti-trust acts and
their results, and other proposed solutions of problem. |
| Economics 114 | Marx & Post-Marxian Socialism | Vladimir G. Simkhovitch |
Detailed analysis of Marxian theories as
well as politivsl history of their rise and fall in
continental Europe. Revisionist movement in Germany; role
of revolutionary socialism in Russia; Syndicalism in
France and Italy, and Anglo-American Socialism. |
| Economics 104 | Commerce & Commercial Policy | Henry R. Mussey |
Conditions of modern commerce, foreign
trade of principal countries, especially United States, in
relation to natural resources, increase of population,
changes in industrial methods and organization, and
distribution of wealth. Causes and effects of modern
commercial policies; economic and social conditions of
chief importance for determination of trade policy in
United States at present. |
| Economics 303-304 | Seminar in Political Economy & Finance | Vladimir G. Simkhovitch and Henry R. Mussey |
[No catalogue description offered.] |
| Sociology 258 | The Theory of Social Evolution | Franklin Henry Giddings |
Aspects of social evolution; growth;
complexity; control; types; metamorphoses; theory of
society; theory of grouping; theory of solidarity; theory
of organization; theory of progress. |
| History 226 | The Protestant Revolt | James Robinson |
Consideration of origin, character and
effects of Protestant Revolt, rather than history of
Europe during period of the Reformation. |
| 1914 |
SUMMER |
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| Economics s205 |
Value and Distribution |
Alvin S. Johnson |
A critical study of recent tendencies in
economic theory. The basis of the course will be an
analysis of the utility theory of value, as formulated by
Jevons, Nieser and Bohm-Bawerk, and the productivity
theory of distribution, as formulated by Clark and Nieser.
The premises and the logic of these theories will be
examined in the light of the criticisms of the neo-Marxian
and the social value theorists, and of the time-preference
interest theorists. |
| Sociology s102 |
Principles of Inductive Sociology |
Franklin Henry Giddings |
The major principles of inductive
sociology are so presented as to constitute an
introduction to the more advanced study of social
evolution and the theory of progress. Among required texts
are Giddings' Principles of Sociology and Cooley's
Social Organization. |
| Economics s125 |
The Classical Economists |
Alvin S. Johnson |
A survey of the development of economic
theory from Hume and Adam Smith to John Stuart Mill and
Cairnes. The primary object of the course is to give the
student a thorough familiarity with the classical body of
economic thought. Especial attention will be given to the
conditions, political and social, under which the
character of economic science was established. |
| 1914-1915 | ACADEMIC YEAR | ||
| Economics 105 | The Labor Problem | Henry Rogers Seager |
Rise of factory system, labor
legislation, growth of trade unions and changes in law in
respect to them, policies of trade unions, strikes,
lockouts, arbitration and conciliation, proposed solutions
of labor problem, and future of labor in United States. |
| Economics 108 | Railroad Problems--Economic, Social and Legal | Edward R. A. Seligman |
This course treats of railroads in the
four-fold aspect of their relation to investors,
employees, the public, and the state, respectively.
History of railways and railway policy in America and
Europe. Particular attention is paid to the theory and
practice of railroad rates and to the methods of
regulation in the United States. Students are advised to
take as a preliminary Economics 183. |
| Economics 109 | History of Socialism | Vladimir G. Simkhovitch |
Outline of social movement during
nineteenth century, and brief review of doctrines of
leading French, English, and German exponents of
socialism, such as Baboeuf, St. Simon, Fourier, Cabet,
Proudhon, Louis Blanc, Robert Owen, Thompson, English
Christian Socialists, German "philosophical" socialists,
Lassalle, and Robertus. Chartism and revolutionary
movement of 1848. |
| Economics 242 | Radicalism and Social Reform as
reflected in the Literature of the Nineteenth Century |
Vladimir G. Simkhovitch |
Interpretation of various types of
modern radicalism, such as socialism, nihilism, and
anarchism, and of social and economic conditions on which
they are based. |
| History 103 | History of India and of Persia | A. V. W. Jackson |
The early history and civilization of
India and of Persia. Development with special reference to
general historical position and present importance in
relation to the West. |
| History 121 | The History of the Intellectual Class in
Europe: Part I |
James Robinson |
This course and History 122 follow
changes in interests, opinions, and attitude of mind of
intellectual classes from days of the Greek Sophists to
our own. Antecedents of intellectual history; primitive
reasoning. General range of Greek speculation, especially
as transmitted to western Europe by Romans, will form
background for estimate of Christian conception of man and
world, as represented in Augustine's City of God.
Origin of medieval universities. Revival of Aristotle and
range of university teaching in thirteenth century. |
| History 122 | The History of the Intellectual Class in
Europe: Part II |
James Robinson |
Open only to those who have taken
History 121. Follows slow decline of Scholasticism during
fourteenth, fifteenth and sixteenth centuries;
intellectual aspects of "Renaissance" and of Protestant
Revolt; birth of modern scientific spirit with Lord Bacon
and Descartes; Deism; French Philosophies; and, finally,
novel elements in contemporaneous intellectual life. |
| History 228 | The Reforms of the French Revolution | David S. Muzzey |
Does not deal primarily with political
history but with great and permanent achievements of
Revolution. Includes description of organization of French
monarchy under Louis XVI; development of spirit of reform
in Europe; "benevolent despotism"; progress of reform in
France to completion of the constitution of 1795. |
| Economics 119 | Economic History | Vladimir G. Simkhovitch |
A general survey of the leading points
in the economic history of classical antiquity, of the
middle ages, and of modern times. |
| Economics 211 | Statistical Economics | Henry L. Moore |
Two full courses. Statistical economics
proposes: (1) to bring to test of representative facts the
hypotheses and theorems of pure economics; (2) to supply
data in form of general facts and empirical laws for
elaboration of dynamic economics. Starting with recent economic theory in form in which presented by Clark, Marshall and Pareto, the course describes in detail those aspects of the theory that have already been tested statistically, and then seeks to indicate where the theory needs empirical verification and development, and how, by means of statistical methods, some of the problems of verification and development may be approached. |
| Economics 212 |
Statistical Economics |
Henry L. Moore |
See Economics 211 above. |
| Politics 107 | Comparative Politics and Government | Edward McChesney Sait |
Two full courses. Comparison of system
of government prevailing in England, France, Germany, and
United States. |
| Politics 108 | Comparative Politics and Government | Edward McChesney Sait |
See Politics 107 above. |
| Sociology 255 | Social Evolution: Ethnic and Civil Origins | Franklin Henry Giddings |
The interests and achievements of
mankind, considered as obtained by both individual and
collective effort; the origins of social evolution,
including the rise of concurrent action; ways of
ameliorating the struggle for existence; the prehistoric
evolution of society, including the collective struggle
for vital conditions, for equipment, for effectiveness,
for surplus and power; primitive social forms; ethnic
groupings; the dawn of history. |
| Sociology 256 |
Social Evolution: Civilization, Liberty
and Democracy |
Franklin Henry Giddings |
The evolution of historic civilizations;
religious-military civilizations, particularly those of
Babylonia and Egypt; the function of slavery; discipline
and standardization; the creation of economic surplus;
liberal-legal civilizations, particularly those of Greece
and Rome; the achievement of liberty and individuality;
the beginnings of voluntary association and of democratic
experimentation. |
| Philosophy 231 | Psychological Ethics & Moral & Political Philosophy | John Dewey |
It will consist of an analysis of
conduct and character from the standpoint of social
psychology. The formation through the influence of the
social environment of biological impulses and wants into
moral affections, beliefs and judgments, together with the
genesis of the self as an agent will be considered.
Typical Ethical theories (as the Platonic, Aristotelian,
Stoic, Scholastic, Kantian, and Utilitarian) will be
discussed so far as their psychological factors are
concerned, the extra hours being given to this phase of
the subject. |
| History 155 | The Origins of European Society |
James T. Shotwell |
Deals with evolution of European
society, with especial emphasis upon history of work and
of common things of daily life. Begins with survey of
prehistoric man, the stone, bronze, and early iron ages,
rise of agriculture, ancient city states, commerce and
slavery. Passes in review early German village life,
feudalism, management of manorial estates, rise of
European cities, emergence of capital and origins of
national state. |
| History 156 |
Social and Industrial History of Modern
England |
James T. Shotwell |
Begins with short survey of Commercial
Revolution which changed centre of European society from
Mediterranean to North. Treats of influx of gold and
silver from America and the business aspects of modern
politics. Industrial Revolution then taken up in detail,
great inventions and rise of the factory system. Considers
advent of industrial proletariat and includes survey of
popular movements toward reform, social legislation, Trade
Unions, Chartism and historical setting of Socialism. |
| Economics 301-302 | Seminar in Political Economy & Finance | Edwin R. A. Seligman and Henry Rogers
Seager |
N/A |
| History 226 | Europe in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries | James T. Shotwell |
Research course open to specially
qualified students. |
| Economics 208 | Types of Economic Theory | Wesley Clair Mitchell |
A critical examination of the basic
ideas of current economic theory; and analysis of economic
problems to determine their constituent elements; and an
effort to determine what type of economic theory is most
serviceable for scientific and practical ends. |
| 1915 |
SUMMER |
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| French sA1 |
Elementary Course |
Albert M. Cohn-McMaster and P. de
Bacourt |
Intended for students who have no
previous knowledge of French. The course will consist of a
careful study of the essentials of French grammar, the
translation into French of sentences illustrative of the
elementary rules, and the reading of ordinary French
prose. The reading will be taken up from the outset and
attention will be paid to a correct pronunciation. Books:
Aldrich and Foster, Foundations of French;
Francois and Giroud, Simple French. |
| German sA1 |
Elementary Course |
Harry V. E. Palmblad, F. W. Scholz, J.
M. Gray |
Intended to familiarize the student who
has no previous knowledge of German with the common
vocabulary and the fundamental grammatical facts of the
language, so as to enable him to read easy German at
sight. Reading forms part of the work from the beginning;
grammar study, writing, and oral practice, in German,
though all made use of, are regarded as means toward the
attainment of reading ability. Text-books: Thomas, Practical
German Grammar, 4th edition (Holt); Hervey, Supplementary
Exercises to Thomas's Grammar, 4th edition (Holt). |
| 1915-1916 | ACADEMIC YEAR | ||
| History 169 | The Expansion of Europe: First Phase |
William Robert Shepherd |
Rise of oversea dominion: early contact
of Europe and Asia; commercial individualism and
state-directed colonization; national mercantilism and
colonization by chartered companies; development of
systems and policies; methods of administration; social
and industrial conditions; diffusion of commerce;
transplantation of culture; reflex influence of expansion
on European life and thought. |
| History 170 |
The Expansion of Europe: Second Phase |
William Robert Shepherd |
Europeanization of the world, and
general problems involved in process: era of transition;
progress toward world partition; age of imperialism;
course of territorial enlargement; spread of population;
effects on oversea dominions and their native inhabitants;
question of racial superiority; present classification and
distribution of colonies; government and administration;
diffusion of European influence, with particular reference
to Asia; principal changes wrought by expansion on
European type of civilization today. |
| History 155 |
The Origins of European Society |
James T. Shotwell |
Deals with the evolution of European
society, with especial emphasis upon history of work and
of common things of daily life. Begins with survey of
prehistoric man, the stone, bronze and early iron ages,
rise of agriculture, ancient city states, commerce and
slavery. Passes in review early German village life,
feudalism, management of manorial estates, rise of
European cities, emergence of capital and origins of
national state. |
| History 223 | Primitive Institutions in European History | James T. Shotwell |
Considers in detail some of the topics
presented in History 155, and open only to students taking
that course. |
| Philosophy 179 | Present Day Philosophy and the Problem of Evolution | William Pepperell Montague |
Two full courses. For 1915-16 the subjects
will be the evolutionary theories of materialistic
naturalism and absolute idealism. The authors studied will
be Haeckel, Huxley, Spencer and Santayana, representing
Naturalism, and Schopenhauer, Eucken, Joachim, Bradley and
Royce representing Idealism. |
| Philosophy 180 |
Present Day Philosophy and the Problem of Evolution | William Pepperell Montague |
See Philosophy 179 above. |
| Anthropology 137 | General Ethnology: Technology and
Primitive Man. |
Alexander A. Goldenweiser |
A study of industries--pottery, weaving,
basketry, wood-carving, work in skins, etc.; division of
labor; industry and sex; industry and physical
environment. A study of designs, realistic and geometrical; conventionalization; symbolism; relation of art to industries; theories of evolution of art. |
| Anthropology 138 |
General Ethnology: Technology and Primitive Man. | Alexander A. Goldenweiser |
See Anthropology 137 above. |
| Anthropology 139 | General Ethnology: Types of Primitive Religion and Mythology--Soc. Org. | Alexander A. Goldenweiser |
A study of animism, magic, taboo,
totemism, ancestor-worship, animal and plant worship;
myths; religion and social organization; theories of
religions and evolution. |
| Anthropology 140 |
General Ethnology: Types of Primitive Religion and Social Organization | Alexander A. Goldenweiser |
See Anthropology 140 above. |
| Economics e183 | Railway Transportation | G. G. Huebner |
A review of the growth of the railway
network, present railway systems and railway
consolidation; construction finance; railroad
capitalization; an outline of the organization of the
railway as a business enterprise; a description of
freight, passenger and express services; the development
of cooperation among railroads; railroad traffic and
rates, including a discussion of the nature and source of
traffic, rate-making practice and theory, rate structures
and the movement of freight rates and fares; the public
regulation of railways by the federal and state
governments and courts. The term will close with a
comparative review of railway transportation in the
leading foreign countries. |
| Philosophy 131 | Moral and Political Philosophy | John Dewey |
Two full courses. The first half-year
will consider the moral problems of the national state in
relation to the individual on one hand and to general
social relations, including international forms of
association on the other. The second half-year will consider the moral problems connected with law. |
| Philosophy 132 |
Moral and Political Philosophy | John Dewey |
See Philosophy 131 above. |
| Politics 214 | The Principles of Politics | Charles A. Beard |
A study of leading doctrines and
problems of modern politics in the light of their
historical origins. |
Source of transcript: Office of the Registrar, Columbia
University. The list of courses was originally transcribed by FWP
from a very dark and blurry xerox of his transcript, on which
grades
had been redacted.
Source of course information: Columbia University Graduate
Faculties. Columbia University Bulletin of Information Division
of Philosophy, Psychology, and Anthropology Announcement
1913-1914, 1914-1915, 1915-1916 (New York: Columbia University,
1913-1916). Research by Rohini Shukla (Sept. 2018-Feb.
2019) has provided the professors' names and the catalogue
descriptions.
A note on how disciplines were organized at Columbia University in the 1910's:
Prior to 1957, all graduate studies at CU were organized into three faculties: Political Science, Pure Science, and Philosophy. The faculty of Political Science included economics, history, mathematical statistics, public law and government, sociology, and anthropology. The faculty of Pure Science included astronomy, botany, geology, geography, mineralogy, mathematics, physics, zoology, and psychology. The faculty of Philosophy included classical philology, English and comparative literature, linguistics, philosophy, religion, and language study (Chinese, Germanic, Indo-Aryan, Japanese, romance, Semitic, and Slavic languages). In 1946, psychology moved from the faculty of Philosophy to Pure Science. Anthropology, too, moved from the faculty of Philosophy to Political Science. Dr. Ambedkar studied at CU before ‘mother’ philosophy was abandoned by her ‘children,’ so to say. The 1910s were therefore years of relative inter-disciplinarity. See: https://guides.library.columbia.edu/uarchives/gsas
--Rohini Shukla, January 2019