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...play is a musical comedy in two acts and a prologue, and the scene is laid in the Plymouth Colony in Pilgrim times. The plot is based on the adventures of two young Americans, John Beacon Winton, of Boston, and James McGraw, of "Anywhere." In the prologue Winton boasts of his "Mayflower" descent. By means of a wishing stone, the two men are transported back to 1620 at Plymouth, and meet their own ancestors, face to face. Winston finds that his forefather, of whom he has been boasting, is a common porter and an "undesirable citizen." He is shocked...
...Wells 2S., C. L. Thurston 3S., E. B. Alvard 2S., B. C. Lancy 1S., W. Clarkson 1S., J. F. Dever, H. A. Winton, H. W. Stearns 2L., T. J. Higgs...
There has recently been instituted at Rome an American School with quarters on the Pincian Hill. The plan was originated at a meeting of archaeologists in Philadelphia last winter, and a committee consisting of Professors W. G. Hall, of the University of Chicago; Winton Warren, of Johns Hopkins University and A. L. Frothinghan, of Princeton, was appointed to consider the feasibility of establishing such a school at Rome. Representatives of nearly fifty institutions are on the committee, of which a strong section is already established in Rome itself. The school will be open from Oct. 15, to June...
...Barbour's work, Wallace does not figure. Contemporary with Bar bour, however, came the author of the so called Blind Harry's "Wallace" a long poem sounding the praises of the great Scotchman, This poem had an influence later on Burns and Scott. About the same time came Andrew Winton who wrote the "Chronicles of Scotland." Winton had no marked literary gift and his work is not any great. It has, however, certain interest for the antiquarian...
...singular, but not one of the colleges has this year produced a punter who has entitled himself to rank at all with Watkinson, Savage, Moffat Richards, Harlan, Shaw, Mason, Camp, Winton, Cutts, Watson and McNair...