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...date. With the return next week of captain Tommy Campion, who was injured in the Navy game, and Dick Lewis, who has been suffering from a severe cold, it is quite likely that the team will make a better showing. HARVARD TUFTS Brecker, g. g., Urbon Livingston, Wilcox, pt. pt., Kempton Maguin, Ferris c.p. c. pt. O'Brien, Silva Bloter, ld. ld., Hammond Baker, Blanchard, Tanner 2d. 2d., Dolben Downey, Doughty, Flinn, c, c., Conforti Willard, Holstead, Sullivan, Bird, 2a. 2a., Gould, Yale Hunraker, la. la., Sullivan (Capt.) Cleveland, Shepard, o.h. o.h., Barselow, Speare, Williams Hammond, Gordon, ih. i.h., Bounakes...
...English Dictionary, edited by Sir James A. H. Murray and others, under spit (Vol. IX, Pt. I, p. 628), he will find cited such English colloquialisms as: "you are a queer fellow-the very spit of your father." ... In The English Dialect Dictionary, edited by Joseph Wright, Ph.D., LL.D., Professor of Comparative Philology in the University of Oxford, under spit (Vol. V, pp. 669-670), he will find other examples of old English usage: "that barn's as like his fadder as an he'd been spit out of his mouth." . . . The same saying is to be found...
Turning to America, we find in Dialect Notes (Publications of the American Dialect Society), Vol. 1, Pt. 5, p. 232: "the ve'y spit an' image o' him," reported from Kentucky. . . . And, finally, in Uncle Remus, in "Mr. Rabbit Finds His Match At Last," Joel Chandler Harris (the distinguished father, I assume, of our present correspondent) writes: "He had a wife en th'ee chilluns ole Br'er Tarrypin did, en dey wuz all de ve'y spit en image er Je ole man." It will be noted that Mr. Harris indicated the omission...
...reviewers named, but a reader aware of Harvard's famous or notorious will find much that sounds familiar. Professor S-r-k-n, Professor J-n-s, a brace of instructors in the -c-n-m-cs Department, Messrs. M-rq--nd and S-nt-y-n- and Colonel -pt-d all go along for the ride...
Players on the Harvard team were Riecken, goal; Witherspoon, pt.; White (Tonner), cp.; Magurn, 1st def.; Cushman (Sullivan, Damon), 2nd def.; Campion (Blanchard, Taliaferre, Downey), c.; Scott (Elrod, Baker), 2nd At.; Hunsaker (Hammond) 1st At.; Hartstone (Flynn, Cleveland, Sheperd), out home; Wood, in home...