Word: cortissoz
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Dates: during 1924-1924
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...Manhattan the National Academy of Arts and Letters, elected five new members, bringing its total to an august SO. The five: ex-Senator Albert J. Beveridge, author of The Life of John Marshall; Royal Cortissoz, art critic; Henry K. Hadley, composer; Charles Downer Hazen, historian; Willard L. Metcalf, artist...
...MacMonnies, William GilIett, Paul E. More, Gari Melchers, Elihu Vedder, Brand Whitlock, Hamlin Garland, Paul Shorey, Charles A. Platt, Archer M. Huntington, Childe Hassam, David J. Hill, Lorado Taft, Booth Tarkington, Charles D. Gibson, Joseph Pennell, Stuart Sherman, John C. Van Dyke, George deF. Brush, Albert G. Beveridge, Royal Cortissoz, Henry K. Hadley, Charles D. Hazen. Willard L. Metcalf...
Three men, representing three phases of the literary world, were unanimous, when interviewed recently by a CRIMSON reporter, in their support of a liberal education as the best foundation for any vocation. These men were Mr. Royal Cortissoz, literary editor and art editor of the New York Tribune, Mr. Julian S. Mason, managing editor of that paper, and Owen Johnson, noted novelist and magazine writer...
...Cortissoz, however, has found a dirth of liberally educated college men. "The lack of education shown by most college graduates with whom I have come in contact is simply appalling," he told the reporter, when interviewed in his downtown office in New York City "I find that most American college men are perfectly content to do just enough work to get their degrees and go no further...
...Cortissoz answered, "for education rests entirely in the individual. It is wholly in his power to cultivate his mind and imagination or not. It is true, however, that Englishmen graduate from their colleges really educated. They learn from what I call the habit of mind, but only because the tradition of learning in English colleges is deeper than here. I am strongly in favor of a purely elective system of education, where the student is given a great deal of freedom...