The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-01-20
WILSON CLASSED
WITH IMM0RTALS
His Name Appears Among Orig
inal Members of American
Academy.
ONLY FIFTY so H0NoRED
Bill to incorporate Is Expected
to Have Nonpartisan
Consideration.

Washington, January ls.-1he names
Of Woodrow Wilson and Theodore
Roosevelt are included in the list Of the
nifty immortals' approved by the
Senate yesterday as original members
Of the American Academy of Arts and
Letters The bill giving the academy
habitation and name by granting
20 ~ articles of incorporation was
passed by the Senate without muir
muir Of dissent. together with d SIM
liar Institute of Arts and Letters
The mem bership OF the latter organi-
zatIOn is 80.
Both bills were introduced by Sen
ator Lodge in the last session. ana
were favorably reported from the Ju-
dietary Committee by Senator Root.
In the case Of the American Academy
the atty immortals. at the head OF
whom are william Dean Howells ana
Henry James, are Incorporated con p
stituted and declared TO be BODY cor
porate Of the District of Colum bra. the
purpose of which are and shall be the
urtherance Of the interests OF itera-
ture and the fine arts.
The corporation. which IL limited 10
nifty mem bers. If given power 20 MAKE
ifs sOwn by laws and regulations. 70 MI
vacancies. To provide for the election
OF foreign. domestic or honorary $3.50
ciate mem bers and the division of such
may receive devises. donations and De-
quests and reinvest the same.
Two Of the 1fty men named in the
measure are dead. Horace Howard
Furness died on August Is, 1912 and
Francis ID. Milet was lost with the
Titanic on April IS. 1912
The powers conferred on the Ma
tionai Institute of Arts and Letters are
the same as those Of the academy the
only apparent difference between the
bodies being that the Institutes mem
bership is the larger Membership IN
the institute carries with 1t marked
distinction for attachments In the neio
of literature, music and the me arts:
Mem bership in the academy is 10 be
taken as the pinnacle of distinction IN
the same field. an honor such as Is
represented by mem bership in the
French Academy.
= wide field Is represented by the
ffty names included in the academy
bill. There are novclists. essaylsts.
poets. painters, sculptors, composers.
critics college presidents and natur-
alists. not the least being Governor
Wilson Practically all of the mem
bcrs of the proposed academy are
mem bers of the institute, which IN
cludes men distinguished in even a
greater variety Of attachments
The ~immortals'' appearing IN the
bill are
William Dean Howells. Henry James,
Henry Adams # homas r. Lounsbury.
Theodore Roosevelt, John 5. Sar-
gent Horace Howard Furness. Alfred
Thayer Mahan. Daniel Chester French,
John Burroughs. James Ford Rhodes,
Horatio W. Parker. William Milligan
Sloane. Robert Underwood Johnson.
George w. Gable. Andrew d White,
Henry Van Dyke. William {. Brown
ell Basil l.. Gildersleeve- Woodrow
Wilson. Arthur 7. Hadley. Henry
Cabot Lodge. Francis HOpkinson Smith.
Edwin Rowland Blash1eld. William NJ
Chase. Thomas Hastings. Hamilton
Wright Nabie. Brander Matthews.
Thomas Nelson Page. Elihu Vedder.
George Edward Wood berry, Kenyon
Cox. George Whitefield Chadwick.
Abbott II. Thayer John Muir. Charles
Francis Adams. Henry Mills Alden.
George De Forest Brush. William Ruth
erford Mead. John W. Alexander, Bliss
Perry. Francis d Miller. Abbott Law
renee Lowell. James Whitcomb Riley.
Nicholas Murray Butler. Paul
Waviand Bartlett. George Browne Post
The bills have not yet passed the
House. which may not take kindly TO
the idea The appearance Of Cover
nor Wilson's name among the I'M
Fnortals" however. l. expected TO assure
non-partisan consideration of the meas