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...superb Saturday afternoon From the moment that the first French Horn strains echoed from Appleton Chapel back to the band arrayed on Widener steps till the crowd followed Mcl Holmes, his baton, and his orchestra over the Lars Anderson Bridge into the ever ever land that is Cambridge on a triumphant Saturday night, there was never a doubt but that a wonderful time...
...this point cannot be proven, it also cannot be contested very violently in the face of the fact that the Princeton and Yale Athletic Associations, neither of which can back a band with the reputation or box-office appeal of Harvard's, consider it worth while to treat their horn-players to several trips each season...
...societies. He led a WPA expedition to look for lead marker plates, buried by the French in 1751 as claim to the land, and found two, just where he said they would be. The Greene County Historical Society thereupon appropriated $20,000 and worked nine years to put the Horn diaries and papers into a three-volume...
...Evidence. Step by step, the committee had weighed the evidence. First of all, Horn's transcript was suspiciously complete to have been copied from diaries he had described as "moth-eaten" and partly illegible. The papers used phrases unknown in the 18th Century ("frontire spirit," "race hatred"). Horn's ancestors showed themselves ignorant of the Julian calendar, which was universally used in their day. Horn's maps and court dockets bore a 19th Century watermark and were written with a metal pen and in blue-black ink, unknown until 1836. The documents had been "aged," said...
...committee's verdict: the papers were spurious and Horn was a fraud. "Beyond a doubt," said the Quarterly, "they will become collectors' items . . . treasured with comparable fabrications on the grand scale." Why had the papers been forged? In Topeka last week, 77-year-old William Horn said nothing. His wife told newsmen that he had suffered a stroke. As to the Horn Papers, he was "no longer interested...