Word: swords
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Captain W. H. Russell '18 showed that he is back in form again by winning the tournament of the Amateur Fencers' League of America at the Sword Club last Tuesday night. Captain Russell has been sick, but he is fully recovered now and is fencing in fine form. In the last few days' practice E. P. Hamilton '18 and G. H. Code '18 have been doing good work. These three men will constitute the team. There will also be an exhibition match between Professor Leslaby and F. S. Damon...
Captain W. H. Russell '18 of the University fencing team won the tournament of the Amateur. Fencers' League of America, held Monday at the Sword Club, after a three-handed tie for first honors. Russell was given the decision on points, as he had one less touch recorded against him than against Dr. S. W. Allen and O. D. MacLauglin, both of the Sword Club. Each of the three won four bouts and lost...
...famous equestrian Prado picture, the likeness between the two is striking. In the picture under discussion, the pose and expression are dignified and impressive. The massive black robed figure stands out against a perfectly painted gray background. The characteristic left hand rests on the hilt of the sword and the right grasps a table covered with red velvet. The gold chain...
Other posters outline the pension system and separation allowances, given to support those left at home. A final broadside quotes the Prime Minister's Guild Hall speech: "We shall not sheathe the sword . . . until the military domination of Prussia is finally destroyed...
...large sums of money have been given to aid their work. But they give the impression of seeing the end more clearly than the means, and appear to think that war can be forever drowned out by a flood of talk, that the pen can grind the sword into a plowshare. Some pacifists speak as if any alternate were always preferable to war; and yet very few of them would carry the principle of non-resistance so far as to reduce this country to the condition of china, a prey to the foreign spoiler. Between national subjection or humiliation...