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...Author, Charles Gilman Norris, a Chicago merchant's son, was brought up in acquiescent eclipse. His "beautiful and restless and ambitious and fiery" mother, denied a stage career by wifehood, centred her hopes in her oldest son, the late Frank Norris (author of The Octopus, The Pit, etc.) Charles, youngest of six, got and sought no encouragement for "his little old solitary dreams" and his school and college writings. His rapid romance and marriage with Kathleen Thompson (author of Mother, The Heart of Rachael, Beloved Woman, Little Ships, The Black Flemings, etc.) are said to have rekindled his literary ambition...
Said Critic Lawrence Gilman of the New York Herald Tribune: "The whole of it is vital and dis- tinguished music, but the slow movements, the largo, is not only an exquisite piece of writing, but it is charged with a depth of feeling, a poetic beauty, a musing, tenderness...
Yale: 115-pound--G. Gilman, 125-pound J. A. Drake, 135-pound--H. W. Wylee. 145-pound B. Dodd, 15-pound--A. C. Hoffman, 175-pound--J. F. Oldt, Unlimited...
Last week Johns Hopkins University celebrated the 50th anniversary of the inauguration of the late Daniel Coit Gilman as its first President. Educators took interest because that inauguration is commonly taken as marking the starting point of postgraduate education in the U. S. Dr. Gilman was "the father of the graduate school, the great apostle of university research...
...Stravinsky, of Rachmaninov; they heard sentimental melodies in pseudo-jazz they heard the anxiously im- mature opus of a youth who-no longer child of the Cyclades and of Broadway-has become an earnest aspirant for musical respectability. There was nothing daring, nothing racy, nothing even individual Law- rence Gilman said...