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...scholarship up at Cambridge just because his name was Downer. This doesn't make any sense to me. What can be so attractive about the name Downer that people give him scholarships? Especially a feebly growing Downer who is self-admittedly a lazy sort of blighter. Why no Botsford scholarships? I bet erg for erg I can out-lethargy Downer every time out. And if Downer can be a blighter, so can I. I'd challenge him to a blighting contest tomorrow if I thought it would do any good. But I guess If Harvard's going to act like...
Pianist Harney, who had toured the West and Midwest long before he started the craze in Manhattan, launched a nation-wide school of ragtime composers, active during the early 1900s. Prominent followers included Lucky Roberts (Pork and Beans), Scott Joplin (Maple Leaf Rag), Northrup & Confare (Cannon Ball), George Botsford (Texas Steer Rag), and Earl K. Smith (Hot Ashes). Oldtimers who heard Harney do his stuff, recall that his playing sounded very much like that of Zez Confrey (Kitten on the Keys), a little like Fats Waller...
Claudius M. Jones Scholarships: Thomas W. Botsford, 4M, of Chillicothe, Mo., A.B. Univ. of Mo. 1931. Warren I. Reinhardt, 4M, of E. Orange, N. J., A.B. Johns Hopkins...
Died. Anna Botsford Comstock, 75, professor-emeritus of nature study at Cornell University, in 1923 voted by the National League of Women Voters as one of twelve greatest women in the U. S., wife of Cornell's famed Entomologist John Henry Comstock; at her home in Ithaca...
Died. The Rev. Dr. Alfred P. Botsford, 98, "oldest alumnus of Princeton University" and "second oldest college graduate in the U. S."; at Woodbury, N. J. Twice married, he was active in the Presbyterian Ministry up to his 70th year...