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...Wreck of the Old 97" was in the courts again and thus last week did Judge J. Warren Davis begin his opinion in the U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Philadelphia. What Judge Davis had to decide was whether or not David Graves George, a spare, hollow-cheeked old hillbilly who still works for the Southern Railroad, had written the version of the "Old 97" sung by Vernon Dalhart on a Victor phonograph record in 1924. Hillbilly George claimed that he wrote the song in 1903, a week after he had helped to pry nine bodies...
Last week the Circuit Court reversed the District Court, decided that George was not the author of the folksong that ranks close behind "Casey Jones." Judge Davis quoted the Dalhart version which Victor attributes to two other Virginians, Charles Noell and Henry Whitter who took Noell's poem, modified it a bit and sang it around on street corners and in plank taverns to a guitar and harmonica accompaniment. Dalhart made "The Old 97" go this...
...which the five vacancies will be filled by a postal ballot to all graduates this spring: Albert F. Bigelow '03, of Brookline, lawyer, and Chairman of the Ways and Means Committee of the Massachusetts State Legislature; James M. Morton, Jr. '91, of Fall River, Judge of the United States Circuit Court, and former president of the Harvard Alumni Association; Robert P. Patterson, LL.B. '15, of New York City, Judge of the United States District Court, Southern New York District; Charles Warren '89 of Washington, D. C., lawyer and former Assistant Attorney General of the United States; Chase Mellen...
...first goal of the game was made after only 29 seconds of play, when Captain Crutchfield carried the puck the length of the ice, and passed to McGill, the hardest shooter in the Canadian circuit, who drove the rubber into the net from the dasher. The next three McGill goals came at the end of the first stanza, all within a period of 30 seconds. The Scarlet skaters rang up three more tallies in the second period, again through four and five man rushes...
Chautauqua's site, beside Lake Chautauqua in New York's southwestern tip, was once a Methodist camp-meeting ground. In 1874 a Methodist circuit preacher named John Heyl Vincent and a pious Ohio inventor named Lewis Miller held a two-week institute for Sunday School teachers there. Both men were self-edu-cated, hungry for knowledge, eager to spread it. Within 1 5 years they had added schools of languages and music, started the famed Chautauqua Literary & Scientific Circle for home reading. Thus arose a unique conglomeration of religion, culture and fun which the late Theodore Roosevelt once...