----------------- HES POSTING ----------------- You should not have any trouble getting into the university archives to see the "college" [i.e., Faculty of Arts and Sciences] course catalogues for those years, which will show you department by department who had jobs year to year and at what level and what courses they taught. Call 617-495-2461. Probably the archivists will show you internal departmental papers on annual numbers of "concentrators" (undergraduate majors) and graduate admissions and graduate degrees taken in economics, and maybe also course syllabi. Beyond that you will need heavy leverage. Given what I believe is still a 50-year rule, you probably will not get to see departmental records on hiring at any level past 1954 (and so on), much less deanly or presidential records on permanent (tenured) appointments. Ditto any correspondence between deans and individual members of the department's faculty on "research institutes" or work in Washington (or elsewhere for the USG or for the state). For personal reports and records I think your best source now is Arthur MacEwan, who is, I believe, chairman of economics at U.Mass.-Boston. John Womack ----------------- FOOTER TO HES POSTING ----------------- [log in to unmask] http://eh.net/mailman/listinfo.cgi/hes