Word: gwynedd
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...harpers cast their harps into the River Conway, dived in themselves, swam, towed, hauled out their harps upon the further shore, plucked manfully but inaudibly at sodden strings. Followed a troop of Welsh singers. Having swum the Conway they sang no better and no worse than before. Prince Maelgwn Gwynedd of North Wales, thereupon welcomed the singers to the first recorded Welsh Eisteddfod, heaped their palms with gold, banished his harpers, proclaimed the confirmation through "trial by water" of his pet theory: that song is superior to instrumental music. Since then the Eisteddfod (literally "session," actually "contest") of Welsh bards...
Hockey. -- Henry Alexander Murray, Jr., '15, of New York; Francis Boyer '16, of Gwynedd Valley, Pa.; Clifford Frederick Farrington '16, of Cambridge; Russell Brigham Frye '15, of Marlboro; Huntington Reed Hardwick '15, of Quincy; Richard Harte '17, of Philadelphia, Pa.; Kenneth Barnitz Gilbert Parson '16, of Providence, R. I.; and Wingate Rollins '16, of West Roxbury...
Francis Boyer '16, John Harvard, Gwynedd Valley...
...Potter, of Westchester, N. Y., has been appointed toast-master and will call upon the following men to speak: W. J. Bingham, of Lawrence, "The Class"; E. W. Mahan, of Natick, "Football"; E. M. Wanamaker, of Melrose Highlands, "Hockey"; J. W. Cooke, of Newton Centre, "Debating"; F. Boyer, of Gwynedd Valley, Pa., "Crew"; F. G. Fripp, of Albany, N. Y., "Baseball"; K. Bromley, of New York, N. Y., "Musical Clubs"; J. O. Johnstone, of Cambridge, "Track"; R. N. Williams, Jr., of Cambridge, "Tennis"; W. Blanchard, of Concord, "Finance...
...Boyer '16, of Gwynedd Valley, Pa., has been appointed by Captain Abeles of the University crew as temporary captain of the Freshman crew. Boyer was captain of the school crew at Groton last year, but was forced to resign on account of sickness. Seven Freshman crews went on the river yesterday afternoon, and the practice on the whole was very successful. At present the following men are rowing in the first boat: Stroke, Wilson; 7, Soucy; 6, Boyer; 5, Schall; 4, Parson; 2, Potter; 2, Morgan; bow, Jeffries; cox., Sargent...