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Among the many special collections which will be housed in the new library are those of Charles Eliot Norton; Charles Sumner and Harold Murdock, father of Professor Kenneth Murdock, Leverett House master; and the gifts of Thomas Carlyle, James Byrne, Mrs. Brandegee, Herbert Weir Smythe, John Stetson, George Herbert Palmer, Edward Percival Merritt, the Gay and William A. White families, and many other donors...
Professors Sumner Slichter, Professor of Business Economics, enters tenure as first holder of the Lamont University Professorship, established by a gift of $500,000 from Thomas W. Lamont, Harvard '92, New York banker...
...Sumner was always less irritated by taboos, rituals and fetishes of primitives than by those of civilization. At Yale he regularly raised hell in faculty meetings. Once, when President Arthur Twining Hadley offered a mild difference of opinion, Sumner barked: "But it's the truth!" "That is possible," said Hadley, "but it is not always necessary to tell the truth butt-end first." Said Sumner: "I always tell the truth butt-end first...
...notes for Sumner's most comprehensive work, The Science of Society, were unfinished when he died. (He collapsed in Manhattan where, shaky and scant of breath, he had indomitably proceeded to a scientific meeting.) The Science of Society was completed by Sumner's disciple and colleague, Albert Galloway Keller, now a Yale patriarch himself. Sumner left Keller 52 huge drawers and boxes crammed with 156,000 pages of notes. Sumner had his own filing system, using red cards for references to be consulted immediately, green for his own comments. All bore his unique abbreviations, a swastika for "superstition...
...Sumner never tried to cajole, amuse or flatter his huge lecture classes, and he never talked down to them. He used to come crashing into the lecture hall like a gladiator into an arena. On the day of the Great Blizzard of '88, he stamped in wearing leather boots. For him, rubber boots connoted pussyfooting. "Gentlemen," he said once, "if Communism ever gets control of this country, you be sure and get on the Committee...