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...thundered Yale's late Professor Daniel Coit Gilman (later first president of Johns Hopkins) in 1867. Nobody took his thunderings very seriously, not even Professor Gilman; he eventually accepted nine honorary LL.D.s himself. Today U.S. colleges and universities hand out some 1,300 honorary degrees a year, four times as many as in Gilman 's day. Last week a brash young scholar proposed wholesale reforms in this big little business...
...Author Roberts, queried, recommends: Moses Coit Tyler's Literary History of the American Revolution, Charles Stedman's History of the Origin, Progress and Termination of the American War, William Gordon's History of the Rise, Progress, and Establishment of the Independence of the United States of America, Thomas Jones's History of New York During the Revolutionary War, Sydney George Fisher's True History of the American Revolution and Struggle for American Independence, Rupert Hughes' George Washington (last two volumes...
When Chanler Armstrong Chapman went to St. Paul's School in 1915, he had a family reputation to live down. His father (Literary Critic John Jay Chapman) had attended that haughty, Episcopalian institution during the reign of "the First Man of God"-the late, great Headmaster Henry Augustus Coit-and had been expelled because he went too far even for pious St. Paul's: in the midst of a cricket game he suddenly knelt and prayed in front of the wicket. Chanler never was expelled, but his conduct at St. Paul's was, if anything, worse than...
...outside the Fatherland than in it. Not all the exiles are veterans. Last week a phenomenal 17-year-old popped up in Manhattan. His name : Lukas Foss. What made him pop was incidental music he had written for performances of The Tempest by children of arty, part-time King-Coit school...
...Curtis Institute, Student Foss met Composers Samuel Barber (Music for a Scene from Shelley) and Gian-Carlo Menotti (Amelia Goes to the Ball). Each of these grownups, asked by King-Coit to write music for The Tempest, begged off, suggested Lukas Foss. He wrote the music in a month, based much of it (by request) on Sicilian folk tunes, turned in a remarkably workmanlike score. Archaic in mood, making deft use of a small orchestra, The Tempest reminded some listeners of Austria's late Gustav Mahler...