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Other books: Israfel: The Life & Times of Edgar Allan Poe, Wampum & Old Gold, Toward the Flame, New Legends, The Blindman...
...research work in English. He spent two years in study at Harvard following the war. He was educated at Annapolis and served in the navy until he entered the army in 1917. Following his work at Harvard ten years ago he produced his first group of poems called "Wampum and Gold...
...their arrival, they built a stockade, a church, organized the trombone choir. Legend maintains that, when predatory Indians beleaguered the town in 1755, the strains of the trombones so enchanted their savage bosoms that they buried their tomahawks and sought salvation with glittering eyes, clad only in belts of wampum. The concerts of the Bethlehemites, however effective in war, were for long informal, unorganized, until M. Woole (born 1863) went to Germany, studied under Rheinberger, became the passionate admirer of Composer Sebastian Bach, organized, on his return, the Bach Festivals...
...interesting, if somewhat--irrelevant comment is the newspaper account of the election held recently in a prominent fraternal order. Twelve officers were elected without difficulty from a group of one hundred and seventy-nine voters. The great Incohee, the Past Great Pocahontas, and the Great Keeper of the Wampum were among those chosen...
...alone cannot undertake all the duties of leading a class. It would be like trying to combine the powers of the Great Keeper of the Wampum with those of the Great Incohee. The appointment of committees is essential, as well as the keeping of class records, and the dispensing of the class wampum in scholarships and other expenses. All this power concentrated in one man, is unwieldy and open to criticism, just or unjust, for all sides. The safest way is to keep the Incohee (whether great or otherwise) and his able assistant the past great Pocahontas, each limited...