Word: sumner
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Cobden club, the largest free trade club of England, has offered a medal to that undergraduate of Yale who shall write the best thesis on one of the following subjects. which were selected by Professors Sumner, Farnum and Hadley of Yale: 1, "The history of Silver since 1878;" 2, "Employer's Liability;" 3, "The Doctrine of 'Virtual' Monopoly;" 4, "International Industrial Exhibitions...
...country, and is better than many of the public libraries. It does not contain a great many duplicate copies of the commoner books, but it makes up for this in the rarity of others. The most valuable collection of rare books ever given to library is that of Charles Sumner, who left all his books, in themselves a library, to the college. Many of his books are of interest on account of their former owners, two or three having belonged to Louis XIV, one to Milton, and one to Samuel Johnson, besides Bunyan's Bible and Lord Byron's poems...
Professors Sumner, Farnam and Hadley of Yale are preparing the questions in political economy to be used in competition for the Cobden club medal...
...Griffing closed the debate for the affirmative. The pole tax, he said, which the republicans defend, is unjust and unconstitutional and has been so regarded by such men as Sumner, Wilson and Burlingame...
...tariff increases the price of commodities, and thus puts them out of the reach of the poorer classes. Their real wages thus become less-Sumner, Protective Taxes and Wages...