Biography Category
(j ´´ mät´ ) (KEY) , 1938–89, American educator and sports executive, b. Boston. President of Yale Univ. from 1978 to 1986, he was president of ...
1850–1932, American businessman and philanthropist, b. Cecil co., Md. He earned a fortune in business in St. Louis, Mo., and retired in 1897 to devo...
c.1612–1659, first president of Harvard, b. Lancashire, England, educated at Magdalene College, Cambridge (M.A., 1634). He emigrated to New England ...
(fräNswä´ k n ´) (KEY) , 1694–1774, French economist, founder of the physiocratic school. A physician to Louis XV, he did not begin his economic...
(y n) (KEY) , Mandarin Yen Yang-chu, 1893–1990, Chinese educator, b. Sichuan prov., China, educated at Yale (B.A., 1918) and Princeton (M.A., 1920) ...
(kärl y ´hän rôdb r´t s) (KEY) , 1805–75, German economist and conservative socialist. He held several public offices but after 1849 devoted hi...