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James Rufus Agee '32, of Rockland, Maine, has been awarded the Lloyd McKim Garrison silver medal and a cash prize for the best poem submitted to the Department of English, it was announced last night. Agee is Secretary of the Harvard Advocate. The Prize was founded by the Class of 1888 in memory of their classmate, Lloyd McKim Garrison...
...Brooklyn has an art museum which is by no means en echo of Manhattan's giant Metropolitan, but an important, lively institution in its own right. Last week several heroic pieces of statuary were set up on the tecrace before this immense Roman pile, designed by McKim, Mead & White. Heralds were they of a great exhibition of sculpture by U. S. citizens and foreigners working in the U. S. which was opened in, and served to inaugurate, the museum's vast sculpture court. Few displays in the U. S. have compared-with it in scope and quality- some...
Royal Cortissoz, 61, was born in Manhattan. Early in life he went to work in the architectural offices of the late great McKim, Mead & White, where he stayed six years. For 20 years he was literary as well as art editor of the New York Tribune (now the Herald Tribune). He likes music (Wagner and Beethoven preferred), collects books, and is addicted to golf, about which he has humorously philosophized in a volume called Nine Holes of Golf. His wife Ellen Mackay Hutchinson Cortissoz has written on musical subjects, is co-editor of the Library of American Literature. Critic Cortissoz...
...Lloyd McKim Garrison Prize: For the best poem on any subject approved by a committee of the Department of English. The competition for this prize is open to all undergraduates, who must file the subject of their poem at Warren House 3 not later than March 1st. Manuscripts should be submitted not later than April 1. $125 and a silver medal...
...Arts where he studied architecture in the atelier of Jules André. In Paris he became imbued with the great French tradition but, never an academician, he returned to the U. S. with an open mind bent upon adapting his learning to U. S. limitations. In the firm of McKim, Mead & White, where he spent his apprenticeship, he shared a draughting board with John Merven Carrère. They quit McKim, Mead & White and hung out their own shingle. Soon they had a commission from Henry M. Flagler, pioneer Florida exploiter, to build two hotels in St. Augustine, the Ponce...