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Twenty-five wielders of the saber, foil, and epee were addressed by Captain John Gains Hurd '34 and Coach Rene Peroy at an organization meeting of the Varsity and Jayvee fencing teams held recently in the fencing room of the Indoor Athletic Building...
Outstanding candidates for the sparing outfits of seven are Captain Hurd and Robert C. Ackerman '35 in the foils, Edward E. Langenau '35 and Webster F. Williams '35 in the epee, and John L. Dexter '34 and Edward A. Ackerman '34 in the saber, Philip E. Lilienthal '36, captain of last year's Freshman aggregation is expected to land a position in the foils department...
Other promising fencers attending were Richard Morgan, 4th, '36, Joseph A. Weber '35, Morton Grant '36, and Roward B. Reynolds '36 in the saber; Bruce H. Billings '36, Manley B. Cohen '36, and John B. Hickam '36 in the foil; Richard Ford '36, and Sheldon Smolian '36 in the epee. Morgan, Grant, and Hickam all fenced on the 1933 Freshman team...
...Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Perigord, aged four, slipped off a chest of drawers, broke his foot, and thereby forfeited all claim to military training and parental affection. But if a sickly cripple could not wield a saber, he could at least study the scriptures, and Maurice, aged thirteen, was consigned to the ecclesiastical limbo. Twenty years later he wore the Miter of Autun. Thence for sixty odd years the imperturbable Talleyrand stood at the right elbow of every government that held sway in Paris. Through the maze of diplomacy and intrigue he walked, smiling ironically, drinking deeply and often...
...Freshman match there will be foils only, since the M.I.T. Freshmen are trained for neither epee nor saber. The Harvard men in this contest are: P. E. Lilienthal '36, Richard Morgan '36, P. H. Sturtevant '36, S. J. Freedberg '36, and J. B. Hickam...