Word: cubans
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This afternoon at 4.30 on the main floor of the Hemenway Gymnasium the University fencing team will face the championship Cuban team which is now touring the country. Captain Burke Boyce '22, E. H. Lane '24 and E. L. Lane '24 will fence while W. R. Brewster '24 wil substitute. It will be the first international fencing meet ever held at the University and will be the Cubans' only college match in this country...
...announced yesterday that the University fencing team would meet the championship Cuban team which is now tourling this country at the Homonway Gymnasium Friday at 2.30 o'clock. This will be the first international fencing meet ever held at the University...
...Cubans are meeting the prominent teams in this country, fencing foil teams at Washington and New York, duellings swords at Boston and New York, and sabres at Philadelphia and New York. Harvard, however, is the only college team they will meet. Several of the Cuban team have taken part in the Olympic games at Antwerp, and Manuel D. Diaz '89, a former University and B. A. A. fencer, will be in their line-up. The University team will be announced later...
General Wood, after a romantic and able army career, beginning with Roosevelt's "Rough Riders", served as military governor of Cuba from 1899 to 1902, when the government of Cuba was given over to the Cuban Republic. In this capacity he displayed the same remarkable executive and constructive ability and foresight as Cameron Forbes showed in his work in the Philippines. Later he obtained a background for his new position by commanding the Philippine division of the United States Army...
...send an American to the assistance of President Menocal is enough to prove that the experiment begun by the United States is not yet successfully completed. It shows that whatever action taken concerning Hayti or the Philippines, it must be cautious and taken with the full understanding that our Cuban barometer, after many years of watching, has not yet risen from the "storm" to the "fair weather" mark...