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Following are the names of the men who will come here, together with school in which they will study: Frank Ongley Darvall, History; Thomas Pemberthy Fry, Law; William Gerald Humphrey, Chemistry; Edward T. C. Spooner, Medicine...
Score--Harvard 41, Middlebury $1. Goals from floor--Rex 6, Wenner 4, O'Connell 3, Mahady 2, Farrell, Johnson 3, Humeston 4, Humeston 4, Sorenson 3, Goals on fouls--Upton 3, O'Connell 2, Mahady 2,--Farrell, Wenner, Soreson 4, Casey, Johnson, Spooner, Timekeeper--McGuire: Referee-Souders, ware-Two 20-minute periods...
HARVARD MIDDLEBURYWenner, l.f. r.f., JohnsonD'Connell, r.f. l.f., Bulliken, Maynard, SorensonUpton, Mahady, c. c., Humeston, Maynard, Sorenson Rex, l.g. r.g., Spooner...
HARVARD MIDDLEBURY Wenner, l.f. r.f., Johnson O'Connell, r.f. l.f., Screnson Upton, c. c., Brockelman Rex, l.g. r.g., Spooner Farrell, r.g. l.g., Casey...
...William Archibald Spooner, onetime warden of New College, Oxford, celebrated last fortnight his golden wedding anniversary. He has long been aware that he is the cause of the appearance of the word "spoonerism" in the Oxford English Dictionary. A spoonerism is the transposition of two sounds, or of the first letters of two words, in a simple sentence. In 1879, Dr. Spooner announced a hymn as "The Kinquering Congs Their Titles Take." Since then, he has been labeled the author of countless spoonerisms. But, on his golden wedding celebration, he stoutly maintained that "Kinquering Congs" was his one and only...