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Twenty-Five Years of the Economic History Association: A Reflective Evaluation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 February 2011

Herbert Heaton
Herbert Heaton
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University of Minnesota
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I'm honored by this assignment: partly because I think after-dinner speeches are a necessary combination of regularizer and tranquilizer; also because it is a pleasure to share in our silver jubilee before silver vanishes from circulation. I wonder what the Association will do when the golden jubilee comes round. But the last two words of the title were not of my choosing, and when the program came I had to consult my dictionary. There I learned that “to evaluate” means “to ascertain the numerical value of”—which suggests I am to talk in digits. As for “reflective,” the good book says “throwing back images, light, etc., as in a mirror.” Of late years, since I gave up using a hairbrush and took to an electric razor, I haven't done much looking into mirrors; and when I do so my bifocals compel me to stand so close that the view is limited in area or to move far back and thereby get width and depth of vision.

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The Journal of Economic History , Volume 25 , Issue 4 , December 1965 , pp. 465 - 479
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Copyright © The Economic History Association 1965

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