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THE LEGAL-TENDER DECISIONS.

By EDMUND J. JAMES, PH. D.

AMERICAN ECONOMIC ASSOCIATION.

MARCH, 1888.

COPYRIGHT, 1888, BY AMERICAN ECONOMIC ASSOCIATION.

BALTIMORE:

FROM THE PRESS OF GUGGENHEIMER, WEIL & Co.

1888.

The Study of Statistics in Colleges.

BY HON. CARROLL D. WRIGHT,

United States Commissioner of Bureau of Labor.

Paper read at the joint session of the American Economic and Historical Associations, at Cambridge, Mass., May 24, 1887.

America has no counterpart to the continental school of statisticians, whose members have entered their particular field of science after special training by a systematic course of instruction. We have our statisticians, to be sure, but they have taken up their work accidentally, and not as a profession. Men engaged in the practice of law or of medicine, or in the other learned professions, enter them only after careful preparation. Our government trains its soldiers and sailors; our colleges and higher institutions of learning fit men for various special scientific and professional labors, but we have not yet reached the advanced stage of educational work in this country which comprehends administration in its broadest terms. The European has an advantage over those engaged in statistical work in this country. Many of the leading colleges and universities of the continent make special effort to fit men to adopt statistical science as a branch of administration, or as a profession.

Körösi, Neumann-Spallart, Ernst Engel, Block, Böhmert, Mayr, Levasseur, Bodio, and their score or more of peers, may well excite our envy, but more deeply stimulate the regret that one of their number,

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