Word: sumner
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Exemplary" Sumner...
WILLIAM GRAHAM SUMNER?Harris E. Starr?Holt ($4.00). "Exemplary biography." Sound phrase. Aged and middle-aged Yale men, sipping coffee and nursing cigars, go back to William Graham Sumner, professor at Yale of political and social science, as to a hero of their youth. They declare there was hone like him for forthrightness, wisdom, integrity.* They say the "grand manner," the strong individualism of which he was such an exemplar, is gone out of college professors in these days of alumni control, teaching unions, mass education. Survivors of Yale '83, for instance, recall how they were circularized their senior year...
...Lawrence Peirson, Mrs. Thomas N. Perkins, Mrs. John T. Pratt, Mrs. William B. Pringle, Mrs. Clarence E. Rice, Mrs. Hunter Robb, Mrs. Losan H. Roots, Mrs. Richard S. Russell, Mrs. John F. Samborski, Mrs. Hugh D. Scott, Mrs. William G. Soule, Mrs. Philip L. Spalding, Mrs. J. O. Sumner, Mrs. James B. Tailer, Mrs. Herbert C Theopold, Mrs. Amasa Walker, Mrs. Guy Waring, Mrs. Henry W. Watts, Mrs. Robert T. Whitehouse, Mrs. William Whitman Jr. Mrs. Edward A. Whitney, Mrs. James H. Wright, Mrs. B. Loring Young...
...first rank for scholarly value. Such men as Ralph Waldo Emerson 1821, Oliver Wendell Holmes '61 and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (hon.) '59 have read poems at these meetings. Among the men who have delivered lorations on these occasions are Edward Everett 1811, Joseph Story 1798, and Charles Sumner...
...Stadium Exercises: Ivy Oration, Robert Emlen Sumner...