Word: sumner
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...eminent protectionist, Prof. Robert E. Thompson, of the University of Pennsylvania, has declined the invitation extended him by the New York Free Trade Club, to meet Prof. W. G. Sumner, of Yale, in debate...
...Prot. Sumner will deliver a lecture before the New York Free Trade Club, Friday evening, on "The Effect of Protective Taxes on National Prosperity...
...SUMNER DOW RICHARDSON...
Professor Sumner of Yale, says as follows of the change for admission to Harvard:- "I have examined it with great care and I think it an admirable scheme. It is judicious, and marks an important step in the improvement of university education. Every man can suit himself as to his course of studies. The greatest change is in the possibility of avoiding Latin and Greek through the combinations which have been provided for. I see Mr. Charles Francis Adams, Jr., is pressing a movement to substitute English for Latin as the official language of the college. This fact is worthy...
Professor Sumner of Yale said recently to an interviewer: "I have examined with great care the new Harvard scheme, and I think it an admirable scheme. It is judicious, and marks an important step in the improvement of university education...