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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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COMMONWEALTH AWARDS TO BRING FOUR BRITONS HERE | 5/15/1929 | See Source »

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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MIDDLEBURY LOSES TO HARVARD FIVE 41 TO 31 | 1/12/1929 | See Source »

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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MIDDLEBURY LOSES TO HARVARD FIVE 41 TO 31 | 1/12/1929 | See Source »

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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: VERMONT QUINTET COMES HERE TODAY | 1/11/1929 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Oct. 29, 1928 | 10/29/1928 | See Source »

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