Word: sumner
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Bowdoin prizes and in his remarks made this interesting statement: Prizes for English were given to the following men while they were in College: Edward Everett '11, Jared Sparks '15, George Bancroft '17, Ralph Waldo Emerson '21, Josiah Quincy '21, Benjamin Robbins Curtis '29, James Freeman Clarke '29, Charles Sumner '30, Francis Bowen '33, Ebenezer Rockwood Hoar '35, Henry Whitney Bellows '32, Jones Very '36, Richard Henry Dana '37, Edward Everett Hale '39, Thomas Hill '43, Francis James Child '46, James Coolidge Carter '50, James Mills Peirce '53, Adams Sherman Hill '53, Phillips Brooks '55. Charles Francis Adams '56, John...
...book by Colonel T. W. Higginson '41, entitled "Contemporaries." The volume is a valuable series of sketches, most of which have been previously published in magazines, of famous men and women contemporary with Colonel Higginson. Among the best known names are those of Emerson, Whittier, Grant, Wendell Phillips, Charles Sumner, and Theodore Parker. Colonel Higginson, in his simple and graceful style, has treated his subjects not as historical figures, but as living men and women. The sketches of Ulysses S. Grant, Wendell Phillips, and Theodore Parker are thoughtful and appreciative, and the reminiscences of John Holmes are written...
...Sumner prize of $100 was awarded to William Bennett Munro, A.M., '99 for an essay on the "Feasibility of an Universal Staatenbund." The judges were Mr. Charles C. Beaman of New York and Professor E. H. Strobel...
...Yale this year is on a more substantial basis than ever before. All the debating organizations in the university have united under one head called the Yale Debating Association. About a month ago a meeting was held under the auspices of this association at which President Hadley and Professor Sumner made addresses on the history and advantages of college debating. Among the objects of the Yale Debating Association is the bringing about of a series of debates between various college debating organizations in order to afford opportunities for public speaking, which have heretofore been lacking. Hitherto the various debating organizations...
John Thornton Kirkland Fellowship.Charles Sumner Griffin, A. B. (Kansas State Univ.) 1894, A. B. (Harvard Univ.) 1895, A. M. (Ibid.) 1896; III. year Graduate School; University Scholar 1895-96, Assistant in Economics 1896-98. To study Economics...