Education: Academicians

Met in Manhattan the National Academy of Arts and Letters, elected five new members, bringing its total to an august SO. The five: ex-Senator Albert J. Beveridge, author of The Life of John Marshall; Royal Cortissoz, art critic; Henry K. Hadley, composer; Charles Downer Hazen, historian; Willard L. Metcalf, artist.

Deliberations followed. It was decided to give an Academy gold medal to Walter Hampden, actor, "for good diction on the stage"; an Institute gold medal to Edith Wharton, author, for her achievements in fiction. Ossip Gabrilowitsch, son-in-law of Mark Twain, late Academician,...

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