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...forwards will be relatively unchanged from the pack which helped beat Dartmouth last weekend, but there will be a completely new second row of Pete Bradlee and Stu Nickerson. Brady Williamson returns at hooker with Ken Culbert. Terry Turner remains at post, while Markin Lindsay moves to flank. Art Tickmor, the other flanker, will captain the team in place of senior Rob Albert...
Changes in the scrum are Brady Williamson at hooker, Bill Frate at lock and Art Ticknor at flank. All three are veterans of the club. The South African loose forward combination of John Chalsty and Lionel Bryer, which proved so successful on the spring tour, remains unaltered...
Except for a few short trips, Darwin emerged from Down House only for his funeral (1882) in Westminster Abbey. The ceremony was terrific: all sat in awe as the coffin of the archfiend, "borne by Huxley, Hooker, Wallace, Lubbock, James Russell Lowell, Canon Ferrar, an Earl, two Dukes, and the President of the Royal Society," was carried in amid the angelic chanting of choirboys. Fortunately, there was a living Darwin present, his son William, to give the ceremony a characteristically Darwinian touch. The abbey was very drafty, so William, "with the respect shown by all Darwins for the possible invasion...
...both the foil and sabre events, quickly defeated fellow Gold Coaster Phil Villers, 3 to 0, to gain individual point honors among the House entrants with 11. Kaden's stiffest opposition came in his semi-final match, where after repeated attacks and parries, he finally overcame Bill Hooker of Kirkland, 3 to 2. Runner-up Villers triumphed over his semi-finalist opponent, John Watson of Dunster...
...cabin. Cambridge itself had been settled only two years before as a "fortified place." Since the meeting house had no bell, the congregation gathered to the roll of a drum. The sober Elders later were able to buy a bell, but their jubilation was short-lived. For Thomas Hooker, their pastor, migrated to Connecticut, leaving only eleven families behind in Cambridge...