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...Maryland." The chords strode across a half-empty Armory, coming faintly to the ears of a far younger musician, who sat in a chair thickly padded with blankets and thumped dully at another keyboard. These two-Professor Camillo Baucia, "champion marathon pianist of Europe," and B. G. Burt of Jamestown, N. Y., U. S. champion-had been playing continuously for over 52 hours. They had played all the tunes they knew; the pianos were going flat; only 500 people remained in the hall; still they played on. But a doctor had just taken Professor Camillo's temperature, felt...
...ROMANCE OF FORGOTTEN TOWNS -John T. Paris-Harper ($6.00). What do you know about the birth and death of Jamestown, Va.; of Pemaquid, Me.; of the sodhouse towns of Kansas, nothing of which remains but an occasional pile of turf on the prairie? What do you know of all the other hundreds of towns and villages that sprang up in the early days of our country, flourished and perished, leaving here and there a battered church tower, a deserted farmhouse, a buried pavement-and nothing else? Or of Robert Owen's communistic town in Indiana, or Prince Gallitzin...
After all, the agitation in English sport circles and the furor aroused over here at this seeming Americanization of English sport is scarcely justified by facts. Students from this country have been going to Oxford and Cambridge ever since Jamestown days, and the institution of Rhodes Scholarships certainly has not lessened the number. It is only natural that this continued inflow should make some impression on England's educational pool...
...going somewhere and "getting away from it all". The much quoted "Go West, Young Man" legend has brought to the Pacific dozens of dreamers filled with ideas of immediate prosperity, but with no more definite notions of how to get it than Captain John Smith's followers had at Jamestown three hundred years before...
...following officers for the coming year were elected at a recent meeting of the Christian Science Society: President C. A. Woodward '12, of Jamestown, N. Y.; vice-president, P. Ramsay '16, of Sharon, Pa.; secretary-treasurer, A. P. Evans, Jr., '15, of Cambridge; member of Executive committee, J. S. Fleek '15, of Newark...