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...Coach Edo Marion was highly pleased with the performance of his sophomores and he ventured a prediction for 1958: "If these boys continue to progress as well as they have, I expect an intercollegiate championship from them in their senior year...
Eight sophomores will lead a favored Crimson fencing squad against Trinity this Saturday at the I.A.B. "Because we do not expect Trinity to be too strong," Coach Edo Marion explained, "and because these sophomores have shown so much promise, I want to use them in this match so that they can get some experience...
...Varsity and Freshman fencing teams held a practice meet with M.I.T. Saturday afternoon at the I.A.B. Unofficial scoring indicated the superiority of the Crimson fencers, although coach Edo Marion said that the Crimson teams were not as good as they looked and need intensive training...
...Japanese call their prints Ukiyo-e, meaning literally "pictures of the floating world." For the great period of Japanese printmaking (1650-1850), the "floating world" meant mainly the silk-swathed, sake-steeped joys of Edo's (later Tokyo's) popular theater and bawdyhouse life. The prints were produced by close cooperation between artist, wood engraver, printer and publisher, and sold for only a few cents apiece. The most famous publisher had his shop just outside the Yoshiwara (Edo's red-light quarter), offered illustrated guides and souvenirs of the quarter designed by the greatest Ukiyo-e masters...
...true that soon after Utamaro Ukiyo-e art sharply declined. Hiroshige (1797-1858) was the last Ukiyo-e master. An Edo fireman, Hiroshige quit fire fighting at 27 to hike up and down Japan sketching. He turned his sketches into a flood of prints showing the nation's famed views, stopping places, bridges, rivers and fairs in all kinds of weather. Bales of Hiroshige's prints found their way to Europe, did as much as anything to spark modern painting. Manet, Degas, Lautrec and Van Gogh all learned from Ukiyo-e art. But after Hiroshige's death...