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...Bill Davenport, inside forward, scored the winning goal half way through the first period, when he headed the ball away from goalie Merrill's outstretched arms. From this point play was evenly divided with goalguard Sample of the Green, and center Howard Mendel of the home team sharing individual honors...
Wherever we go the Dartmouths will be always with us. There was one last year. At ten he turned up his nose at our davenport, at two he was trying very hard to find it, at nine the next morning he wouldn't get off it so we just left him there...
...Lowell, 2 Eliot, 3 at Yale, football, Berkeley College 0, Winthrop House 0; swimming, Saybrook 42, Eliot 24; hockey, Vanderbilt Group 4, Winthrop 2; crew, Lowell defeated Saybrook by five lengths; tennis, Jonathan Edwards 4, Lowell 3; at Harvard, touch football, Dudley Hall 12, Vanderbilt 0; squash, Adams 5, Davenport 0; basketball, Saybrook 23, Adams 19; golf, Pearson 6 1/2, Lowell 4 1/2; baseball, Timothy Dwight 7, Kirkland...
...Nashville's ornate Cathedral of the Incarnation this week, Most Rev. William Lawrence Adrian, 53, lately an obscure Iowa priest, was to be installed as the seventh Bishop of Tennessee's 32,300 Catholics. Consecrated in Davenport by the august Apostolic Delegate to the U. S., Most Rev. Amleto Giovanni Cicognani, Bishop Adrian later recalled how he had learned of his impending elevation : "There among my letters was a communication from the Holy See. With trembling fingers I opened it and read: 'The Holy Father has in mind to choose you Bishop of Nashville...
Bishop Adrian was undoubtedly chosen to build up Catholic schools and colleges in Tennessee, home of Protestant Vanderbilt and Sewanee (University of the South). Another North American College graduate, Dr. Adrian was long a faculty member and in 1932-35 vice president of St. Ambrose College in Davenport. A heavy-footed, horny-handed farmer's son, he coached football and baseball, taught Latin and manual training. Said he last fortnight: "I'm bringing two chairs I made to grace the Episcopal residence at Nashville...