TFS Meeting Number 3

TEXAS FOLKLORE SOCIETY

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Third Annual Meeting

The third annual meeting of the Texas Folklore Society was held in Austin,
Friday and Saturday, April 4 and 5, 1913, in the University YMCA Auditorium.

Program of Third Annual Meeting

Annual Address, Friday, 8 P. M.:

Professor George Lyman Kittredge (Harvard University), "The Study of Folklore: Its Meaning and Its Value"

Saturday, April 5, 2:30 P.M.

Robert Adger Law (Austin), "The Dying Lament," President's Address

Dorothy Scarborough (Waco) "Traditions of the Waco Indians"

Bonner Frizzell (College Station) "Some East Texas Play-Party Songs"

D.F. Eagleton (Sherman) "Amongst the Creek Indians a Decade Since"

A.W. Eddins (Gatesville) "Negro Folk Tales from the Brazos Bottoms"

Alberta M. Roach (Dallas) "Some Gaelic Folk Tales"

W.H. Thomas (College Station) "The Decline and Decadence of Folk-Metaphor"

John A. Lomax (Austin) "Negro Plantation Songs"

Officers:

President:

Robert Adger Law (Austin)

Vice-Presidents:

W.H. Thomas (College Station)

Mrs. George Langston (Cisco)

Mrs. Jane Morton Ware (Waco)

Secretary:

John A. Lomax (Austin)

Treasurer:

Mrs. E.P Stockwell (Angleton)

Councilors:

L.W. Payne, Jr. (Austin)

Mrs. Joseph B. Dibrell (Seguin)

Mrs. A. H. Belo, Jr. (Dallas)

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