Universities and their sons; history, influence and characteristics of American universities, with biographical sketches and portraits of alumni and recipients of honorary degrees . d while stillretaining temporarily the superintendency of the In-vestors Supplement, he was for a year associated witha Wall Street banking house, putting to practical usehis knowledge of investment properties. In 1894the old firm of William B. Dana & Company wassucceeded by the William B. Dana Company, ofwhich Arnold G. Dana became the nominal Treas-urer, also assuming the editorial chair of the Invest- ment News


Universities and their sons; history, influence and characteristics of American universities, with biographical sketches and portraits of alumni and recipients of honorary degrees . d while stillretaining temporarily the superintendency of the In-vestors Supplement, he was for a year associated witha Wall Street banking house, putting to practical usehis knowledge of investment properties. In 1894the old firm of William B. Dana & Company wassucceeded by the William B. Dana Company, ofwhich Arnold G. Dana became the nominal Treas-urer, also assuming the editorial chair of the Invest- ment News Department and the regular ManagingEditorship of the Investors Supplement. Hefurther compiled, and until the spring of 1899was also Managing Editor of the Street RailwaySupplement, an additional adjunct to the Chronicle,which has been issued regularly at quarterly inter-vals since March 1895. He has published in seriesand separate, numerous articles upon investmentsubjects, including statements concerning the natureof various forms of securities, the debts, and finan-cial status of leading railway corporations, etc., andhas added still another feature to the Chronicle in. ARNOLD G. DANA the Industrial Department. The proposed newSupplement for various reasons remains in em-bryo, but this new department has been added tothe weekly Chronicle to meet the requirements ofthe recent industrial development, in the way ofgreat consolidations devoted to the gas, electriclight, water, and especially the industrial consolida-tions of the United States. Mr. Dana is a memberof several societies at Yale, and of the HamiltonClub, Brooklyn. On October, 24, 1888, he mar-ried Grace, daughter of Albro J. Newton, of Brook-lyn, and niece of Professor Hubert A. Newton, ofYale. He has three children : Henrietta Silliman,born September 15, 18S9 ; and Katharine Trum-bull, born July 20, 1S96, and Albro Newton Dana,born December 4, 1898. UNIVERSITIES AND THEIR SONS 133 DEWEY, Frederic Perkins Yale


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