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...United States. The graduate schools of arts and sciences of today are modelled on the German universities of 1820, and it was Harvard College and Harvard men who took the lead in the development of the modern graduate school. Mr. Long's essays on Ticknor, Everett, Cogswell, Longfellow, Bancroft, and Motley are this not only chapters in the history of faste and scholarship in this country but are also chapters, and important ones, in Harvard history...
...Oratore, Greek syntax and meters, Greek and Latin Composition, Latin conversation, French, and Italian, Riding and dancing, he adds, are "pursued at odd intervals." Yet, he says, "All the students here who pass for diligent hear far more lecturing than I. Cogswell hears 8 courses daily." We see George Bancroft, fresh from college, sent by the Harvard Corporation for three years' study in Germany in order to become, as President Kirkland expressed it, "an accomplished philologian and biblical critic, able to expound and defend the Revelation of God." Bancroft was not so uncritically enthusiastic as his predecessors had been. Ticknor...
...very, very pretty Betty Lawford is a bit cinematic as the defeated tart and Frances Maddux does well although her main talent for singing naughty ballads is quite dragged in by the heels. Jane Bancroft (one of the local debbies) does rather nicely as Ella, the serving girl--a democratizing experience, no doubt. John Root's stage so is a magnificent variation on the duplex apartment idea...
...Washington one day last week Assistant Secretary of the Navy Henry Latrobe Roosevelt and the U. S. Navy Band helped dedicate a tablet to the late, great Historian George Bancroft, who, as President Polk's Secretary of the Navy, defied Congress in 1845 by setting up without its authority a Naval School which became the U. S. Naval Academy at Annapolis. Next day Assistant Secretary Roosevelt motored over to Annapolis to help celebrate its goth anniversary of that event. From far & wide gathered thousands of old Navy men who with their families strolled the quiet, trim, tree-lined yard...
...dent Clayton Sedgwick Cooper but the bill for the banquet at Boston's Hotel Copley-Plaza was footed by the Committee's New England members, including Speculator William ("Big Bad Bill") Danforth; Colonel Edward Howland Robinson Green, Hetty Green's son; Vice President & Treasurer Charles G. Bancroft of United Shoe Machinery; J. A. Turrell, retired Woolworth executive. One day some of the members went to Leslie Buswell's home in Gloucester, Mass., then for luncheon at the nearby showplace of John Hays Hammond, who was ill abed, finally rejoining their ladies at Swampscott for a dance...