Word: sumner
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...first of Prof. Sumner's series of articles on "What Social Classes owe to Each Other," appears in the last Harper's Weekly. The special title of this article is, "On a New Philosophy: That Poverty is the best Policy...
...absolutely necessary that the professor should be sustained in his right to present what appears to him the true principles of his subject. The advocates of protection have certainly weakened their falling cause by the adoption of such disgraceful weapons as the personal attack on Professor Sumner. There is no doubt that all college students will support the instructor against the malicious attacks of a few fanatics...
...newspaper statements that the senior class of Yale College is in a ferment over Prof. Sumner's free trade teachings, the excitement being increased by the recent tariff controversy between the professor and Mr. Evarts, are said, by a large majority of the students, to be without any foundation whatever. Prof. Sumner devotes himself to teaching political economy, they say, and makes no special effort to inculcate free trade doctrines, although always ready to express his views...
...political economy. These principles lead somewhere, and it is the duty of the virile mind to follow them. They are taught as principles to be adjusted by the minds that receive them to the situations in which they may subsequently find themselves. Probably neither Prof. Perry, nor Prof. Sumner, nor Prof. Dunbar, would advocate such a revolution in our tariff system as the adoption of absolute free trade. But free trade is the only legitimate rationale of the science, and in spite of natural obstructions it is the duty of all society to lean toward it, even though...
...Yale faculty are going to be given "a chance to prove it." Prof. Sumner having made certain statements in regard to the low wages paid by the Willimantic Linen Company, the president of that company has placed a special train at the disposal of the Yale faculty to visit the mills and investigate the question...