Word: davidson
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Founded as Davidson Academy, the school had Andrew Jackson as one of its earliest trustees; Peabody Library still preserves a biography on whose flyleaf Old Hickory scrawled a withering estimate of his biographer. But it was a damyankee merchant named George Peabody and his $2,000,000 that put Peabody on its feet. Despite this taint, most of Peabody's 1,850 students still come from the South, and President Henry Harrington Hill expects his 125-man faculty and 60,000 alumni to concentrate on Southern schools...
Will Rogers, who was a willing victim, once called Sculptor Jo Davidson "the last of the savage head-hunters." Last week 187 of his trophies, the work of 41 years, went on exhibition in Manhattan's American Academy of Arts and Letters. Together they made a procession of the 20th Century's famous men, and a few of its women...
Among the historic heads were those of Wilson, F.D.R., Madame Chiang Kaishek, and Gandhi. ("What a dome," recalls Davidson, rubbing his stubby hands, "what a dome that Gandhi had!") The writers included Conrad, H. G. Wells, James Joyce, G. B. Shaw, D. H. Lawrence (whose thin, bearded face Davidson had made indomitable as a plow), Gertrude Stein, Sinclair Lewis, and 1947 Nobel Prizewinner André Gide, looking like a Roman Senator in marble. Helen Keller was portrayed with her thinking hands upraised. Charlie Chaplin's vain, subtle face bowed in a corner. Einstein's uncombed locks stood forever...
...rest of the story may be interesting. The sick list continued to swell. With the Yale game two weeks distant, the squad had little chance to improve itself with scrimmages. Little benefit was derived from a 15 to 0 victory the next weekend over lightly-regarded Davidson...
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