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Ever since Wagner's death, the excitement of hearing and reviewing new music has been dying out, and, with the exception of a politically inspired flare-up in Shostakovitch's case, is almost dead. Gilman of the Herald Tribune, who died a couple of years ago, was the last survivor of the great days of Wagner controversy when a fashionable New York club had to put up signs to the effect that discussions of politics and Wagner were forbidden in the smoking room. As late as the summer of '39 Gilman wrote about a Wagner performance in the Tribune...
Scoring in both the first and third period the Dunster eleven showed considerable superiority over the Ramblers, in spite of the Dudley team's valiant defensive efforts, sparked' by the fine tackling fullback Steve Gilman...
...more adventurous trips of the summer was last Sunday's ascent of the Whitney-Gilman route on Cannon Mountain by several members of the club. First pioneered by a Harvard Math professor and member of the club back in 1930, the seven-hundred foot vertical buttress is usually considered the finest rock-climb in New England...
...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...
Though not the oldest of the U.S.'s 250 country day schools (Baltimore's Gilman preceded it by ten years), Riverdale was an early model for a new group of schools that now includes some of the finest and most famed in the U.S.-Winnetka's North Shore Country Day, New York's Horace Mann, Philadelphia's Friends Central, St. Louis' Country Day and John Burroughs, Cambridge's Browne & Nichols, Wilmington's Tower Hill, Brooklyn's Polytech...