Arts & Letters

Little ado is made of the National Institute of Arts & Letters (250 members) or its American Academy of Arts & Letters (50 members picked from the Institute). Yet their membership contains men & women who have made positive contributions to current letters & fine a ts. Last week the American Academy of Arts & Letters met in Manhattan and again chose Professor William Milligan Sloane of Columbia president. Also, the National Institute of Arts & Letters gave him a gold medal for his work in history.

At the same sitting the Academy completed its roster by promoting John Russell Pope (architect), Edwin Arlington Robinson (poet), James Earle Eraser (sculptor) and John Huston Finley (associate editor of the New York Times) from the Institute to the Academy.