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...Engineers showed good strength with every weapon, winning by one bout in sabre and epee, while posting a two-bout advantage in the foil...
Harvard faced the Engineers earlier in the season and defeated them. 17-10. Since then the Crimson has dropped a match to Columbia; while M. I. T. streaked past Fordham. 17-10, but could not get past a Stevens Tech team, losing the match by one bout. Playing on home territory, the M. I. T. fencers may give the Crimson some trouble. "We may not win by as many bouts, but I don't thin we can lose," Crimson Coach Edo Marion said yesterday...
Supposedly, M. I. T.'s foilers are its strong suit. The Crimson foilers managed to defeat them by one bout last December. Without the services of Weissman and after a particularly bad match against the Lion, the Crimson foilers could lose badly once more. The fencers might win tonight, but it could be close, very close...
...cases of 72 neurotic male patients. Among 44 men who were intensely concerned with their athletic ability, Little reports in the journal A eta Psychiatrica Scandinavica, 32 suffered from neuroses that had been set off by physical ailments. Often they were trifling, such as a sprained ankle or a bout of flu. Of 28 nonathletic neurotics, however, only three had mental problems that could be traced at least partially to physical sources. Most of the athletic patients had been fit all their lives and had had happy childhoods, successful marriages and stable personal relationships. But, Little says, "they were overinvolved...
...feelin' 'bout half-past dead...