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...Pinchot was graduated from Yale in 1889, and afterwards studied forestry in Europe for a number of years. He was one of the first to do any systematic forestry work in the United States, and has done more than any one else for the conservation of the country's forests...
...announcement that the scrub fencing tournament has been abandoned because of an insufficient number of entries is another instance of the lack of interest taken in fencing at Harvard. Compared with this sport, basketball is a flourishing institution. Very few men go out for the University team, and at the class tournament last month one member of the Freshman team was absent and the Juniors were not represented at all. No wonder the University team failed to qualify for the intercollegiate tournament in the last two years. When there is so little general interest taken that the majority...
...recommended by many experts for the general development of the body. But apparently the attractions of the game do not excite the ambitions of many Harvard undergraduates, and the uniform unsuccess of the team has not tended to increase its popularity. As long as the feeling exists that the number of intercollegiate athletic contests should be reduced, and even if there were no such feeling, it would be well to consider the abolition of intercollegiate matches in branches of sport which are unsuccessful and not popular...
Below is given the list of the officers of the Union elected yesterday, with the number of votes cast for each. There were in all 457 votes cast, 37 less than last year...
...preliminary round of the scrub fencing tournament will be held in the Fencing Room of the gymnasium this afternoon at 4 o'clock. On account of the small number of entries the entry list will be open until the beginning of the tournament. The members of the University fencing team, who have offered the cups as prizes, have decided that unless more interest is made evident by atleast three additional entries, the tournament will not take place. All teams will be chosen as evenly and as fairly as possible, in order to insure a close competition...