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Sixty years ago, when the revolutionary ideas of Lister and Pasteur were beginning to gain credence, there was no medial school in the U. S. worthy of the name. American students went abroad to do research, learn surgical and laboratory technique. In 1883 Daniel Coit Gilman, head of Johns Hopkins University, heartened by a $3,228,000 bequest from the Quaker founder of the school, began scouting for distinguished professors who would form the nucleus of a great U. S. medical faculty...
...reverse, gaining effects through elimination rather than overcrowding. Yet his style is ever free in its movement, fitting into the classical forms, yet not restricted by them. The bustling introduction of the fourth movement, and the pianissimo before the glory of the end makes an overwhelming effect. Lawrence Gilman has said, "The finale is the crown of the work, and in many ways the most nobly imagined and nobly eloquent page that Sibelius has given...
...date the Freshmen have won five and lost one, beating Tome, Gilman, Huntington, Thayer, before yesterday's game and bowing...
...music tells the listener what the protagonists are thinking about, what they intend to do, where they came from, what their destiny is. To the inexperienced operagoer, Wagner's orchestra merely sounds; but to the seasoned Wagnerite it talks. Of Der Ring des Niebelungen, cautious Manhattan Critic Lawrence Gilman recently wrote: "Not only the hugest thing that was ever attempted by the creative will; it is also, in the ultimate sense of the word, the greatest...
...strikers claimed that Gilman was forced out because of an editorial attacking the School Board for overcrowded conditions...