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...Spalding's program indicated clearly a desire on the part of the violinist to avoid the more stercotyped show pieces that usually fill such a program. Unfortunately in doing so he fell into the error of playing some pieces of little interest or musical worth. On the whole, however, his program was far better than those which one usually encounters. Beginning with a Prelude and Aria from Bach's Suite in E Minor, his selection included an excerpt from a Sonata of Porpora, short pieces of Boulanger an Suk, two of his own compositions, a Waltz of Chopin...
...years prior to 1898. He covered the interesting "Bank Panic" of 1837, the second panic of 1857, the depressed times of the rebellion, and the later panics of '73, '84 and '93. Three New England railroads quoted during the first panic, the Boston & Lowell. Boston & Providence, and Boston & Worcester, fell from highs of 137, 127, and 114 in 1835 to lows of 86, 83, and 74 in 1837. During the same period bank stocks, which then were the principal investment securities, registered smaller declines, while Amoskeag, as typical of the manufacturing stocks, at a par of $1000 fell from...
...without damage. The great Pulitzer Cup race was reserved for the last day of the race, but the events leading up to it were full of interest and excitement. Trophies and prizes aggregating thousands of dollars were awarded in various events. The "On to St. Louis" prize of $500 fell to "Casey " Jones of Mineola who flew from Mineola, L. I. The race for the Liberty Engine builders' trophy fell to the Army, which carried off all the cash prizes (amounting to $1,500), Lt. C. McMullen coming in first in a Fokker engined plane. Other events tested general...
...Mayflower or something, but she was as advanced a specimen of our modern intelligentsia as you could find. She had a Shaw-green room and a dozen pet paradoxes and wrote articles for Tomorrow, a journal of opinion, in forming the world that Charles S. Chaplin could act. George fell in love with her and she might have married him- he was such a good listener-until he spoiled his chances by taking her to a ball game. There she saw Tiny Tyler, the home-run kind, make an incredible catch, "as God might pick a comet." She insisted...
Word has been lately received that the Medaille Militaire, the highest honor bestowed by the French government for valorous conduct, has been awarded posthumously to Ronald Wood Hoskier '18, an ex-member of the Lafayette Escadrille. He fell in action at San Quentin, France, on April 23, 1917 after a heroic battle against three enemy plans...