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Progress. The world moves fast. One has almost forgotten that the Atlantic has already been conquered by the airship. Yet it was as early as July 2, 1919, that the British R-34 crossed the ocean to land at Mineola, L. I. The R-34 started from East Fortune Airdrome, Edinburgh, Scotland, covered the shortest route over the North Atlantic, took 108 hours to sail 3,200 miles. At times, she scarcely made 25 m.p.h.; 500 miles from shore her gas was almost gone; the motors had to be nursed; the famous call "Rush Help" startled and alarmed the world...
...star was heralded on the horizon of music. A young Dutch violinist, Peter van der Meer, late of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, gave a violin recital in Carnegie Hall. His interpretation of Paganini's Concerto in D Major met with especial acclaim. But soon Van der Meer was forgotten. In 1915, he became blind, after a long illness. He spent six years in the Bellevue Hospital, Manhattan. Recently he was pronounced cured-but his sight had left him forever...
...those events in the past which bear upon the present interest them in proportion to this relation. When Tottel's Miscellany appeared, or who the first Merovingian king was, may be required in a course, but after the examination it is so much deadwood, and as such is speedily forgotten. Four years of plowing through courses, and sifting of facts, however, bring out certain significant relations, and the earnest student begins to see more clearly some of the outstanding problems that face his generation. Already he may have trends of thought which suggest possible solutions. If he gets this much...
...than is generally given it. It is difficult for the public to take humorists as seriously as they take themselves; yet we should, undoubtedly, appreciate these three fine writers of graceful lyrics, whose poems, doubtless, will be remembered long after many of our currently vaunted high-brow poets are forgotten...
...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...