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Beginning this week, second year equitation students in the Field Artillery Unit are to be given a course in fencing. This will take the form of both mounted and dismounted drill with practice sabers; the dismounted work to develop the muscles of the wrist and arm, and also to accustom the men to the use of the weapon; the mounted exercises to give the students practice in the control of a horse, while using a saber. The training, it is hoped will tend to prepare the men for playing polo, in case the equipment, ponies, stables, and field should become...
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Columbia made a clean sweep of the annual. Intercollegiate Fencing Association tournament in New York on Saturday, winning the team, individual, and saber championships. The standing of the teams at the finish was: Columbia, won 32, lost 13; Navy, 30-15; Cornell, 21-24; Pennsylvania, 20-25; Harvard, 17-28; Yale, 16-29. The individual members of the University team scored the following number of wins: J. A. Aylen '15, 3; S. F. Damon '14, 5; and R. von Nardroff...