Word: besting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Lieutenant Stephen Conroy, E. H. Lane '24 and E. L. Lane '24. Coach Peroy was a member of the Olympic fencing team last year, and he has been National Foils Champion for three consecutive years in the past. Robert Grasson, Yale fencing coach, who is reputed to be the best in the country, will meet Peroy in three bouts...
...National Foils Championship for 1928-1929. F. S. Righeimer Jr. 1L was captain of the Yale team in 1929, in which year he not only won the National Epee Championship but he also took third place in the National Foils Championship bouts. The Lane brothers are probably the best fencers that Harvard has ever...
...arisen. Honors men particularly find it difficult at the conclusion of a year in, which they have had to write a thesis and study a great deal in a special field to cover all the work of their own department not to mention the "related" ones. Review can at best be of a cursory nature; tutorial work can be of little help where the tutor is a specialist in another department and feels that most of the time must be spent in the particular subject of concentration. The result as shown by the examination papers is that the broad knowledge...
...will be conducted this year as it was last term, when a new system of selecting these officials was inaugurated. Prior to 1928 the editor was appointed by the class president after the mid-year elections, but it was found that this plan prevented the board from doing its best work on the volume. As a result the present plan was inaugurated, which permits the selection of the board before the Christmas holidays...
...about which was the better team Saturday. Boston College showed a line which stopped everything the Crusaders could put on. Downes, a burly Sophomore center put on an exhibition of versatile and effective play such as has rarely been seen, and Murphy and Dixon proved themselves one of the best pair of ends in the whole country. The former looked like all-American timber with his bruising tackling and omnipresence, while it was only the mighty kicks of the latter that kept the Worcester boys at bay so successfully. They are a couple of players whom any coach could...