Briefly Noted

The pervasive effect on American economic thought and on American education over a period of 60 years in the lifetime of just one man may be seen in the 1968 reprint of two volumes, A Constitutional History of Railways in the United States by Lewis Henry Haney '03 (New York: A. M. Kelley, 2 volumes in 1 with maps, $15). The first volume appeared in 1908 when Mr. Haney, 27 years old, was Assistant Professor of Economics, State University of Iowa; the second, in 1910, when he had risen to Associate Professor and Acting Head of the Department of Economics at the University of Texas.

Retiring in 1955 from the faculty of the Graduate School of Business Administration of New York University following 35 years of service, Professor Haney, now 88, a resident of Port Washington, N. Y., has made his influence felt at Dartmouth not only from yearly royalties from a book written in 1921 but also from the Haney Special Endowment Fund established in 1967 to foster teaching and scholarly research in Economics. The Dartmouth Trustees and faculty made first use of the fund in appointing Professor Frank W. Fetter of Northwestern University as Visiting Professor of Economics for the 1967-1968 year.