Word: sumner
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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FROM the Commissioner of Education's special report on Libraries, we find that our Library has doubled within the last twenty years. Among the many prominent contributors of books was Charles Sumner, who during his lifetime gave to the Library more than two hundred and fifty maps, thirteen hundred volumes, and from fifteen to twenty thousand pamphlets; at his death he gave his own library of nearly four thousand volumes. In 1866, Charles Francis Adams gave a collection of forty-eight volumes printed in Great Britain in relation to the rebellion. The Library also contains one hundred and sixty-eight...
...darkest mysteries to the average undergraduate mind that our Faculty should be so backward in paying respect to the memory of great men. Not the slightest observance is paid in this College to Washington's Birthday; the Faculty stopped recitations on the day of Charles Sumner's burial only so long as his corpse was passing the very College precincts, and last Wednesday, when the funeral services of Governor Washburn were being performed in the Chapel no official notice was taken of it by the College, and students - your correspondent among others - were compelled to attend recitations while the bells...
...aware. Harvard College has placed on its governing board two of the gentlemen mentioned, and has bestowed upon them other marks of honor. Of the influence Mr. Emerson and Mr. Adams have on the thought and opinion of Harvard students it is unnecessary to speak. The charge that Mr. Sumner was impolitely treated at a dinner in Cambridge was sufficiently disproved a year ago in the Advertiser. Phillips Brooks has more Harvard students in his congregation than any other preacher in Boston or Cambridge. It may fairly be doubted whether, in regard to Mr. Phillips, Harvard opinion differs from that...
...Professor G. W. Sumner spent his Christmas vacation delivering lectures on Free Trade, in Illinois...
...Tilden men in the Junior class have formed a political club, and named it "The Sumner Club," after Professor W. G. Sumner...