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  2. Francis Barton Gummere - Wikipedia

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    Gummere married Amelia Smith Mott (1859-1937) in 1882; she was a noted scholar of Quaker history. Their son Richard Mott Gummere was a professor of Latin and headmaster of the William Penn Charter School. Their second son Samuel James Gummere had a military career, reaching the rank of major. A third son, Francis Barton Gummere Jr., was an invalid.

  3. William Stryker Gummere - Wikipedia

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    After graduating from Princeton in 1870 at the age of 18, Gummere studied law at his father's office in Trenton and was admitted to the bar in 1873, the same year he received his A.M. from Princeton. Gummere received an honorary LL.D. in June 1902 from Princeton. In the Class of 1870s twentieth reunion book, Gummere said he was a Republican.

  4. Gordon Tullock - Wikipedia

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    An example of rent seeking is when a firm, union, or special-interest group lobbies political actors (e.g., politicians or bureaucrats) to influence legislation in a beneficial manner. This can lead to moral hazard when politicians make policy decisions based on the lobby instead of the efficiency of the policy.

  5. Alumni association - Wikipedia

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    University of Florida Emerson Alumni Hall. An alumni association or alumnae association is an association of graduates or, more broadly, of former students ().In the United Kingdom and the United States, alumni of universities, colleges, schools (especially independent schools), fraternities, and sororities often form groups with alumni from the same organization.

  6. Governmentality - Wikipedia

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    This strand of the three-part definition states that governmentality is, in other words, all of the components that make up a government that has as its end the maintenance of a well-ordered and happy society (population). The government's means to this end is its "apparatuses of security," that is to say, the techniques it uses to provide this ...

  7. List of forms of government - Wikipedia

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    A form of government where the monarch is elected, a modern example being the King of Cambodia, who is chosen by the Royal Council of the Throne; Vatican City is also often considered a modern elective monarchy. Self-proclaimed monarchy: A form of government where the monarch claims a monarch title without a nexus to the previous monarch dynasty.

  8. Fight the Power (Public Enemy song) - Wikipedia

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    Simply put, "Fight the Power," and likely Public Enemy itself, could not exist without it. "Fight the Power" is a complex and subtle testament to the influence and possibilities of sound recording; but at the same time, it reveals how the aesthetic, cultural, and political priorities of musicians shape how the technology is understood and used.

  9. John Gummere - Wikipedia

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    John Gummere (1784-1845) was an American astronomer and one of the founders of Haverford College in Pennsylvania. [1] He was born in 1784 near Willow Grove, Pennsylvania. [ 2 ] His son Samuel James Gummere (1811-1874) was the first president of Haverford College , and his grandson Francis Barton Gummere (1855-1919) was an influential scholar of ...