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In the Beginning …

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 May 2010

Hugh G. J. Aitken
Hugh G. J. Aitken
Affiliation:
Amherst College
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Extract

On the whole we don't treat old people well in this country, but old scholars probably fare better than most. We let them use our libraries and come to our annual meetings. Occasionally we have them chair a session on some not-too-current topic. We refer to them in footnotes and we thank them in prefaces. We donét, in other words, completely depersonalize them, cut them off from our lives and banish them from our ceremonies, as happens too often with other people of advanced age.

Type
Review Article
Information
The Journal of Economic History , Volume 35 , Issue 4 , December 1975 , pp. 817 - 820
Copyright
Copyright © The Economic History Association 1975

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1 Cole, Arthur H., The Birth of a New Social Science Discipline: Achievements of the First Generation of American Economic and Business Historians—1893–1974 (New York: The Economic History Association, 1974). Pp. 66Google Scholar.

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