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Biography: Margaret Louise Coit, for John C. Calhoun: American Portrait...
Under Daniel Coit Oilman, Hopkins' first president (1876-1901), the university grew mightily. Lord Kelvin, Lord Bryce and William James were among its distinguished lecturers, Woodrow Wilson and Philosopher Josiah Royce among those who worked for its Ph.D. The medical school, with its famous four-Sir William Osier, William H. Welch, William S. Halsted and Howard A. Kelly-was for years the best in the U.S. Other campuses followed the Hopkins in emphasizing advanced research. Even Harvard's imperious Charles W. Eliot had to concede that "the graduate school of Harvard University . . . did not thrive until the example...
...best pickings. Lloyd Lewis died with only one volume of his biography of General Ulysses S. Grant completed, but Captain Sam Grant was a fine, thorough book, the best job ever done on Grant's early years. Another big job done with care and spirit was Margaret Coit's John C. Calhoun: American Portrait, a sympathetic and fair study of the great diehard South Carolinian. Catherine Drinker Bowen put too much fictional gloss on solid John Adams and the American Revolution, but it was the first biography to make him seem wholly human. Irving Brant finished the third...
John C. Calhoun: American Portrait, by Margaret Coit. A spirited biography of the great ante bellum South Carolina statesman who, as Congressman, Secretary of War and Vice President, was the champion of states' rights and of the South's slave-owning aristocracy (TIME, March...
John C. Calhoun: American Portrait, by Margaret Coit. A spirited biography of the great ante bellum South Carolina statesman who, as Congressman, Secretary of War and Vice President, was the champion of states' rights and of the South's slave-owning aristocracy (TIME, March...