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After today's encounter the swordsmen will face three opponents on the road. Penn will host them this Saturday and should provide stiff opposition, since the Quakers have beaten strong N.Y.U. and Navy teams...
With several Olympic fencers and old pros on hand to test them the Crimson swordsmen last night warmed up for tomorrow's encounter with traditionally powerful Columbia. Both sabre and foil showed increasing strength last night, but the troublesome epee floundered once again...
Harvard's fencers ventilated Brandeis 16-11 on Monday. The Crimson swordsmen took a quick lead with a 7-2 victory in foil, and cruised the rest of the way, winning sabre 5-4 and dropping epee by the same score...
Nationally ranked New York University swept the final three epee matches to nip an upset-minded Crimson squad 14-13 at the I.A.B. Saturday. It was a heartbreaker for the Harvard swordsmen, who lost all three of those matches 5-4, and with them the chance to beat N.Y.U. for the first time in the history of fencing competition between the two schools...
...Sign of Colonialism. Christianity in North Africa goes back to the 2nd century; great councils of bishops were held in Carthage. In the 7th century, Moorish swordsmen swept unchecked across North Africa, and thriving Christian communities were gradually converted to the law of Mohammed. Pope Pius IX restored the Tunisian hierarchy following the French occupation in 1881, and after World War II the country's Catholic population reached a peak of 300,000, nearly all of them Europeans. Thanks to post-independence emigration, there are 45,000 Catholics left; the empty churches stand as a sign...