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...University fencing team opens its season today in a meet with M. I. T., to be held at 3 o'clock in Hemenway Gymnasium. The fencers for the University are Captain S. H. Ordway '21, W. R. Brewster '22, and Burke Boyce '22. Captain Ordway is the mainstay of the team since he has had more experience than the other two. He has fenced in two intercollegiates tournaments but was defeated last year by Skabo, who is on the opposing M. I. T. team today. Brewster, who is a left-hander, took part in the Penn and Navy meets last...
Captain Gowdy was strong in stopping University attacks. The mainstay of the M. A. C. team, he played hard and steadily. Roser, until removed, was a continual threat to the University players...
...first place a university has the right to demand from its students some reciprocal benefit. It is indeed more blessed to give than to receive, but, in the case in point, continued giving and no adequate return impoverishes the intangible fund of character and tradition that is the mainstay of a successful university. For such itinerant students take all the intellectual benefits they can assimilate and return nothing in the form of loyalty and enduring "carry...
...Lamont and G. G. Walker were the strongest men in the Freshman line-up. Lee was the most aggressive man on the ice, but the defense work of the yearlings was very weak. Captain Dwight and Cordingly were the mainstay of the visitors. Dwight especially causing his opponents worry by his speed and untiring efforts...
Until taken out, Captain Sampson was the mainstay of his team. Downes and Rounds showed casual flashes. The defense, however was weak and the men did not work well together...