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...Charles Blount Jr. '18 writing from Lyon, France, to the Alumni Bulletin makes use of the familiar "reductio ad absurdum" argument to demolish the case of those who contend that no one should "deny to any young man the opportunities of a Harvard education." And he indulges in some caustic irony at the expense of those who, on the grounds of democracy and liberalism, would throw open the gates to every eager young...
...Blount objects to the ever-increasing size of Harvard classes on the very reasonable grounds that the physical capacity of the College is strained to the utmost. There can be few, who have given the subject any thought, who will not agree with him. If Harvard is to maintain its standards, if a Harvard education is to stand for what it has always stood for in the past, the physical limit of expansion has, for the moment at least, been reached. The existing physical plant is no longer adequate even for the present classes. The existing faculty can cope with...
...University fencing team last night won its match with Cornell in the Gymnasium, by the score of 6 bouts to 3. T. D. Roberts '03, H. J. Elam 2L., and H. St. Gaudens '03 composed the University team. H. F. Blount '03, W. L. Bowman '04 and F. F. Pino '05 made up the Cornell team. Each man on the University team won two of his three bouts, and for Cornell Bowman did the best work, winning all three of his bouts. The character of the fencing was above that of the average junior competition and several of the bouts...
...University fencing team will meet Cornell in the Gymnasium this evening at 8 o'clock. T. D. Roberts '03, H. J. Elam 2L., and H. St. Gaudens '03, will compose the University team, and the Cornell team will be composed of H. F. Blount, W. L. Bowman and A. Quneneau. Each man will fence one bout with each of the three men on the other team. Although the Cornell team was defeated by Columbia on Wednesday by the score of 7 to 2, they are likely to make the contest close tonight, as the Harvard team has been weakened...
...decided to hold the annual intercollegiate tournament at the New York Athletic Club on March 27 and 28, each man on each team to fence with each man on every other team. A committee consisting of F. B. Clark of Columbia, Q. Gray of West Point and H. F. Blount of Cornell was appointed to arrange the details of the tournament...