William Milligan Sloane (1850-1928) was an American educator and historian. He studied history under Mommsen and Droysen, and much of the time he worked as private secretary to George Bancroft, United States Minister at Berlin. Sloane was a professor of Latin (1877-1883) and subsequently History (1883-1896) at Princeton University. The founder and chairman of the United States Olympic Committee, h...