June 11. At Columbia College from ten to twelve as Haight’s substitute on the committee to attend examination. Heard McVickar’s examination of Seniors in political economy and evidences. (Mack is the evidences of revealed religion.) Very creditable, though I suppose the best scholars were called up while the inspectors were present.
The Diary of George Templeton Strong, Edited by Allan Nevins and Milton Halsey Thomas
You’ll need to put this in your library for later use. Notice that one of the authors is our Larry Schweikart.
https://www.jstor.org/stable/2123394?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents
The Panic of 1857: Origins, Transmission, and Containment
Charles W. Calomiris and Larry Schweikart
The Journal of Economic History
Vol. 51, No. 4 (Dec., 1991), pp. 807-834
June 14, SUNDAY. Today at Church; Higby. Professor Agassiz dined here. Made himself fascinating as I believe he always does, but he’s much pulled down by hard work on his forthcoming Opus Magnum, Vol. I, and depressed by the ill health of a daughter whom he’s sending off to Euorpe.*
* Louis Agassiz had projected a ten-volume work, Contributions to the Natural History of the United States, to which he had obtained subscriptions at twelve dollars a volume. Only four volumes were ever completed.
The Diary of George Templeton Strong, Edited by Allan Nevins and Milton Halsey Thomas