Word: smithness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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More than 60 years ago a curiosity-consumed railroad newsboy, puttering with chemicals in a baggage car, set the car on fire. At the next station, Smith's Creek, he was thrown off the train by a fuming conductor. Last week the incident was re-enacted with variations. Again a dinky, funnel-stacked, wood-burner chuffed into Smith's Creek station, laboriously pulling its coaches. Out of one coach was helped a shag-browed, stooped old man. He eyed the station signboard, recalled his onetime precipitous arrival at the same platform, smiled ruefully. He was Inventor Thomas Alva...
...flower of contemporary music, he second number will be especially noteworthy. Professor Josten of Smith is a composer and conductor of recognised prowess. His bent is toward the primitive and naturalistic, rather than the mechanistic, and the subject of his selection is one in which he can revel. The suggestion of the work came from the series of jungle paintings by Henri Rousseau, French expresisonist, whose simplicity and lack of the artificial form both a point of departure and a goal for Professor Josten's composition: The music is neither based strictly on African themes and rhythms...
...yard dash--Won by H. F. Kollmyer, (Smith); second, W. J. Loughran (Gore); third, E. C. Pinkerton (McKinlock), Time...
...yard run--Won by G. P. Webber (Smith); second, L. M. Adelsohn (Smith); third, A. J. Matursevitch (Gore), Time...
...yard run--Won by H. F. Kollmyer (Smith); second, G. F. Bennett (Smith); third, D. M. Sullivan (Standish) and W. D. Claff (Gore), Time...