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...although such rich boys as Robert Lessing Rosenwald of Abingdon, Pa. now go there. In its long career Gunnery has had only three headmasters. Last week it was handed over by retiring William Hamilton Gibson to a fourth educator who can well preserve its austere tradition: Rev. Tertius van Dyke, Headmaster Gibson's brother-in-law, the pastor of Washington's Congregational Church, son of Princeton's late beloved little literary patriarch, Dr. Henry van Dyke...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Van Dyke to Gunnery | 3/15/1937 | See Source »

...leaving the church for Gunnery, Headmaster van Dyke at 50 is doing what his famed father did at almost the same age, when he resigned his Manhattan pastorate to teach English at Princeton. Tertius van Dyke was in one of his father's classes there. He went with Henry van Dyke to The Hague when Woodrow Wilson appointed the author of Fisherman's Luck U. S. Minister to The Netherlands and Luxembourg. The son grew a mustache as flowing as the father's, later collaborated with him on a syndicated newspaper column, accompanied him on innumerable trout...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Van Dyke to Gunnery | 3/15/1937 | See Source »

Newest of exhibits at the Fogg Museum is a collection of seventeenth century etchings and prints, among which is an unusually good etching by Van Dyke...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Collections and Critiques | 3/5/1937 | See Source »

...Dyke Portrait...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Collections and Critiques | 3/5/1937 | See Source »

...portrait of Philippe Le Roi, by Van Dyke, is reputed to be one of the best of his portrait prints. This portrait, as it appears in the collection, includes only the head of the subject. Several years later the Dutch master completed the figure, but none of the resulting prints turned out as well as the ones of the head alone. The paper has been very skillfully mended, where it was torn completely across the sheet, by some unknown artisan...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Collections and Critiques | 3/5/1937 | See Source »

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