Eponym of the week: Augustus D. Juilliard. The son of French-born immigrants, he was born at sea in 1836 while his parents were en route to the United States. He became wealthy in the textile-distribution business, and was a patron of New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art and an early president of the Metropolitan Opera. In 1924, the trustees of his estate established the music school named for him.

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