Biography Category
(Pierre Émile Levasseur) (py r m l´ lüväsör´) (KEY) , 1828–1911, French economist. He was noted especially for his historical approach to the...
(äb´ p täch´y l r´n r, lûr´n r) (KEY) , 1903–82, American economist, b. Romania. After studying at the London School of Economics in the 19...
(l ´ n) (KEY) , 1797–1849, American educator, founder of Mt. Holyoke College, b. Buckland, Mass. She attended three academies in Massachusetts; lat...
1778–1838, English educator. In 1801 he founded a free elementary school, using a type of monitorial system for which he acknowledged his debt to An...
(lôr´ n, l r n´) (KEY) , 1939–, American fashion designer, b. New York City as Ralph Lipschitz. He began his career by creating neckties under th...
1856–1943, American educator, president of Harvard (1909–33), b. Boston, grad. Harvard (B.A., 1877; LL.B., 1880); brother of Percival Lowell and A...