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Rene Pinchard has been engaged as fencing coach for next year to succeed Monsieur J. L. Danguy who has resigned because of ill health, it was announced last night by the Harvard Athletic Association. The new coach has been connected with the New York Fencers Club for the past three years, and was one of the American Olympic fencing coaches last summer. Pinchard will assume his duties at the opening of college in September...
...Monsieur Danguy has been coach of the University fencing team since 1921, and has turned out several championship aggregations. His career has been a long and colorful one. After serving in the French army, Danguy graduated as a master at Joinville-le-Pont, and then taught, fencing for several years at the College of Rollen at Paris...
...could not go to Worcester without causing a civic demonstration. Fully one-quarter of Worcester's total population (197,600) is foreign-born and mostly French or French-Canadian. Of Worcester's four daily newspapers, one, l'Opinion Publique, is printed in French. When ce brave Monsieur Claudel arrived in Worcester, he found 30,000 cheering citizens waiting for him. Assumption College was M. Claudel's chief host, but Assumption College under the Massachusetts laws can only give a B. A. degree. An ambassador should certainly be honored with not less than an LL.D. So Clark...
...little story concerned Le Monsieur. He is America's greatest monsieur, and so there are times when his awful name may not even be mentioned. One of those times was last week when details of Le Monsieur's embarkation were being arranged between 23 Wall St.* and the highest U. S. official of the Cunard Line. On that momentous morning some smart, insidious Frenchman must have gleaned among excited, thrilled Cunard employes his impression that the following telephone conversation took place...
That evening on the Cunard Pier, experienced U. S. reporters noted the "usual arrangements." It is the custom of Le Monsieur never to enter or leave a liner by the ordinary passenger gangplank. Low down on the Aquitania's side a wide, square port was opened, a short, level gangplank was run out from the pier, and, just before eleven, the plank was walked by John Pierpont Morgan...