Word: sumner
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Professor Sumner's lectures on political subjects are largely attended by the young ladies of New Haven...
...points with pride began their career in the school, among others Presidents Leverett, Langdon, Everett and Eliot, and Professor Josiah P. Cook. Other distinguished alumni were Benjamin Franklin, John Hancock, Samuel Adams, and Robert Treat Paine, while the present century has witnessed the graduation from the school of Charles Sumner, Robert C. Winthrop, Charles Francis Adams, Ralph Waldo Emerson and hosts of others who have attained distinction, but whose names cannot be here given...
...degree was James Sullivan in 1807-8; but it is noteworthy that down to 1823 and even later, with few exceptions, the governors already possessed degrees given by the college. From Gov. Sullivan in 1807 until Gov. Butler in 1883, each one, with one exception, (namely, Increase Sumner, in 1797,) has had his degree, and since 1840 there has been an unbroken line of governors who have had honorary degree conferred upon them. The men represent every distinct shade of political feeling, and it does not appear that the college has taken any note of a man's politics...
...Western man widely known as a protectionist has challenged Prof. Sumner to discuss the tariff question in New Haven before an audience of Yale students and the public...
Perrin H. Sumner, a lawyer, is under arrest in New York on a charge of swindling Mr. D. M. Davidson out of $15,000 in a bogus mining speculation...