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EDISON PHONOGRAPH MONTHLY, JULY, 1915
Interior of the Recital Hall of I. Zion, Broadway, New York
PRINCETON UNIVERSITY HONORS MR. EDISON
PRINCETON UNIVERSITY conferred the degree of Doctor of Science upon Mr. Edison at its Commencement Exercises on June 15th. In presenting Mr. Edison for this degree, Dean West said:
"Thomas Alva Edison, prolific and ceaseless inventor, notably of the carbon telephone transmitter, the phonograph, the incandescent electric lamp, the three-wire system, the motion-picture camera, the alkaline storage battery, and several modes of generating, regulating, measuring and distributing the electric current for light, heat and power. Endowed with keen insight akin to foresight, he was able to see what physical devices would be most serviceable for human advantage and comfort. For this enormous benefit the whole world is his debtor."
Nine other distinguished men of today received honorary titles, including Major-Gen. Goethals of Panama Canal fame, Hon. Theo. N. Vail, President of the American Telephone & Telegraph Co., and Richard V. Lindabury, the eminent lawyer.
FRANKLIN MEDAL TO MR. EDISON
THE first award of the Franklin Medal, the highest prize of Franklin Institute, Philadelphia, was recently made to Mr. Edison. Mr. Edison, who is a member of the Institute, was present in person.
ARTHUR MIDDLETON, EXCLUSIVELY EDISON
ARTHUR MIDDLETON was born, raised and educated in the State of Iowa. He attended college at Indianola, taking a six-year course in music. It was between the years of eighteen and twenty-two that his voice showed evidences of becoming one of the best. At this early age he was doing most of the important oratorio engagements in the Middle West. From college he went to Chicago, there gaining the reputation as the mostsought-for concert and oratorio basso in the counts
Singing a year ago "Alda," in concert form, in Utica, N. Y., with Madam Alda and Leo Slezak, his wonderful voice immediately impressed Madam Alda, who was instrumental in placing him in the Metropolitan Opera Company, which position he has filled most successfully.
There is no question that his voice is one of the greatest now before the public.
Still a young man, we have reason to believe that this great artist will be considered one of the greatest bassos before the American public.
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If you will tell me why Thomas A. Edison outclasses all other inventors, I will tell you why the Edison Diamond Disc Phonograph outclasses all others.