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...Democrat for West Point. So George left for Virginia Military Institute. At the end of his plebe year, he ranked 35th; (when he was appointed Chief of Staff in 1939, he was 30th in rank). But from the very first year until he graduated (in 1901), George was always senior officer of his class. He always had one of the most American of virtues - a steady capacity for growth. The boys respected the boy, as men later respected...
...brief, informal ceremony at the Medical School on Wednesday afternoon. Shillingford was awarded the Henry Asbury Christian Prize, the outstanding senior prize which is given annually...
Voluntary student-faculty agreements replace rules of curriculum and conduct. Typical agreement: boys and girls stay out of one another's bedrooms except to visit the sick. Another: on entering the Senior Division, each student contracts with the faculty to do a certain scholastic job (reading, laboratory, thesis) chosen by him with faculty advice...
...history of modern string quartet playing might be said to have begun in 1902. That year, partially deaf Edward J. de Coppet, senior partner of the Manhattan brokerage house of De Coppet & Doremus, decided to subsidize a group of four players who would make quartet playing their exclusive and full-time occupation. De Coppet, a fanatical music lover, gathered his quartet to practice in peace on his Swiss estate which he called Villa Flonzaley, after a small brook that flowed through the grounds. When they came out of hiding as the Flonzaley Quartet, the musical world soon found their playing...
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