| Show DAVIS DAMS ONCE COLLEGE PROFi PROFI Taught Law In School Where He Had Been Student NEW YORK July Twenty Ii-Twenty ll 11 Twenty seven years ago a ft young Clarks Clarke Clarksburg burg W Va V 1 1 er Joh John V y Pa- Pa DaIs v Da-v ii Is Is wp was elected SL a professor protessor of ot awn In the Washington aHI Le Lee university oily city at t LexIngton Vii Vu He was as chosen not o of oC hla 1 as a n a 0 practicing lower 11 CI ho he he had been on onh I a short hort time but time but because ho he load had hadon on on tho reputation ot of o been perhaps th the best beat law who ho had ever attended Washington mild end Lee Ike the tho throughout tho the south as th the uni Washington founded by Gear George Wash ington and resurrected the 10 usages arc of oC the Civil war nar ar by Robert I E D Lee Let Mr Davis ho ho Oj as a n a n student first flom stIn flomIn In tile the academic academia department an and 1 subsequently In tho the school chool of ot 1 I w had historic spent pent seven even years In tho hl- hl his torte school chool returned as a professor professor sor Among hi his hie seniors In tin tile law lW faculty were the late lata John Ran Ran- dolph Randolph Tucker the war time attorney attorney ney ncy of ot Virginia end Charles Charlea A Graves Crates now n a distin distinguished member of ot the faculty of oC the University of ot Virginia TIr classes Included In hit his hl first two Iwo ears ear at the university per per- per hap haps perhaps scores of oC students student abuse hardest lob job It tins as not call him John 1 Mr Ir Davis was a a from Crom the start It I Is r recall that oil all ono occasion Mr Tucker In con with a n few Cow of ot 1 1 I ii lends characterised Mr Davis as asa a asa a born lawver laer and as a n roan man hOBo achievement In life Ilfe be rapid Tho The students under Mr Da Davis DaI I not long In the fact that the trustees truelS kne knew what they veto v CI 0 doing when then hen the him From the start the yo professor was as popular and before his hla first term was as ended lie ho would thi o haro run any ot QC hI his fatuity col- col colleagues I leagues a dote close I lace ace In any opU- opU lally contest In those das dais Mr vl D Divis the youth he ho was Ills IUs halt hair as as black blaek i and he was as aa straight ht aa os In an Indian He lie had a wonderful ly ty of oC expressing himself In lit u IL felt Ce words and In language lan even eten the he dull dullard rd could understand With It all ill ho was tho soul of courtesy and good He lie lov- lov Loved lov loved ed co a joko joke and he never ne a was atlo to keep a 0 straight face when whon In- In Information In Information formation of oC the pranks of acme somo ot or his students was brought t to his He lie as was a 0 bachelor then thenaid and aid when hen outside the cla class room join joined with lIh the students lr Jr the bO- bO bOchi il cl chi activities ot of town and camp campus Mi JIll Divis D is the first Washing Washing- Washington Washington ton and Leo Lea man to be bo nominated for tor the pI |
