My Recollection of Chicago and the Doctrine of Laissez Faire

Disillusioned by the general drudgery of his job, Stephen Leacock resigned from his teaching position at Upper Canada College in 1899 to pursue graduate studies. ''At Chicago,'' Leacock wrote wryly, ''they made a general pretense that I was fir for the graduate school in economics. It is a little hard to see why, except that I was obviously not fit to die.''

Leacock graduated from the university in...