Word: sumner
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...belief that this course of lectures will be one of great interest, not only to the business men of Boston, for whom the course is especially designed, but also for all who are interested in the study of Political Economy. The lectures to be delivered by Professor Sumner, of Yale, and by Dr. Taussig, of our own political economy department, ought to attract the attention of all Harvard men who are at present engaged in the study of this subject, and, the lectures being free, we venture to predict that the college will be well represented at them...
...Sumner Coolidge, '83, who has gone west to Marqette, Mich., has organized a musical association there, of which he is director, which has already given a very successful concert...
Professor Sumner's little work, "Social Classes," has been translated into French under the title, "Des Devoirs respectifs des Classes de la Societe...
...Scott, Edmund Burke. The manuscripts are of still greater interest. A Latin poem by John Milton; a musical composition of Haydn's; a letter from George Washington to Gen. Schuyler; an official document of the Confederate States signed by Jeff. Davis and Alex. H. Stevens; an invitation to Charles Sumner from President Lincoln to attend the inaugural ball. But that which will probably interest you most of all is Longfellow's first draft of Excelsior, dated September, 1841, half-past three in the morning. It is written in his usual neat hand on the back of a letter addressed...
...Amherst Glee Club employs Prof. Sumner of Worcester as teacher and leader...