VALENTINE'S MANUAL
 

OPENING OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY OF
ARTS AND LETTERS

An important event in the cultural life of New York
began when the American Academy of Arts and Letters
entered into possession of its new home in the beautiful
z\udubon Quadrangle at Broadway, 155th-156th .Streets,
on February 22, 1922.

order of exercises

Opening Address, William Milligan Sloane, President
of  the  Academy   ....................................................

Address to the American Academy of Arts and
Letters, Sir Frederic Kenyon, former President
of the British Academy w'ith greeting from Lord
Balfour, actual President........................................

Response, Brander Matthews, Cliancellor of the
Academy   ..................................................................

Presentation of the Gold Medal to Mrs. Schuyler Van
Rensselaer, The President......................................

"The Youngest Academy," Poem by Henry van
Dyke, Rcad by Augustus Thomas ......................

Greetings from Absent Members, Read by Robert
Underwood Johnson, Secretary of the Academy.

WOODROW WlLSON.

Basil Lanneau Gildersleeve.
Brand Whitlock.

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