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...turns his attention specifically to the graduate schools of American Universities and with his usual trenchant insight finds them not even "within hailing distance of the university standard". For his criterion of the university Dr. Flexner turns back to the Johns Hopkins graduate school founded in 1876 by Daniel Coit Gilman. President Gilman's educational principles were few but sound. A graduate school should place its emphasis on securing the finest possible brains for its faculty and student body: buildings and facilities should be secondary. An atmosphere of serious love of study should characterize the surroundings. Finally, men should...
...feud roots go back even to the founding of the colony. In 1902 three young friends, Hervey White, the late Ralph Radcliffe Whitehead, Bolton Coit Brown, fired with a dream that Poet-Painter William Morris (1834-96) had outlined to Whitehead at Oxford, started tramping through the eastern U. S. in search of a model site for an art colony. White and Whitehead roamed the Carolinas, but it was Brown who discovered Woodstock.? He sent for his friends. Ten thousand dollars was put up with which to buy land but the stolid Dutch farmers were as testy then...
...ever refused that election. But Dr. Drury did not hesitate to refuse it. At that time he explained that he would not, could not, leave his boys. Three-quarters of a century old, possessed of a rare tradition in its first headmaster, the late, great Dr. Henry Augustus Coit, St. Paul's is excelled by no U. S. school, emulated by many, equalled by only two or three. Although St. Paul's stresses democracy few of its alumni are not in Social Registers. They are peculiarly loyal, family-bound alumni...
...committee which met to discuss the relations of the E. I. N. A. and the Federation consisted of Paul Hannah of The Dartmouth, J. D. Crawford of the M. I. T. Tech, C. A. R. Connor of the Holy Cross Tomahawk, H. C. Coit of the Wesleyan Argus, and F. V. Field '27 of the CRIMSON as chairman. The following resolutions drawn up by the committee were subsequently unanimously supported by the conference in general meeting...
Last week Johns Hopkins University celebrated the 50th anniversary of the inauguration of the late Daniel Coit Gilman as its first President. Educators took interest because that inauguration is commonly taken as marking the starting point of postgraduate education in the U. S. Dr. Gilman was "the father of the graduate school, the great apostle of university research...