George Elliott Howard (October 1, 1849 – June 9, 1928) was an American educator and author.
degree from the Peru State College, Howard traveled to Munich and Paris for to study Roman law and history from 1876 to January 1878.
[3][4][5] Controversy erupted after professor Edward Alsworth Ross was fired by Stanford president David Starr Jordan because of his political views[6][7] on eugenics.
[8] Howard defended Ross, citing the first amendment to the United States Constitution.
Howard returned to the University of Nebraska in 1904, and his colleagues included Edward Alsworth Ross and Roscoe Pound.