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Seven men who saw action in the meets this year will return next season. The three Juniors who excelled are Webster F. Williams, Jr. '35, and Robert C. Ackerman '35. Williams and Langenau won the epee team championship of the Intercollegiate Fencing Tournament held at New York during the vacation while Ackerman performed brilliantly in foils events throughout the season...
Spring brings out the doxy in a woman. This word doxy is a perfectly respectable word for the Vagabond found it in a Supreme Court decision handed down by a most learned judge. In the naked puritanism of Webster's Unabridged Dictionary it means "an undesirable sweetheart," one of those beguiling paradoxes into which the tortured paths of puritanism may lead us. But for those beyond the academic halls it signified merely a woman who is "no better than she ought...
John G. Hurd '34 won the individual foils championship of the Intercollegiate Fencing Championship held at the Hotel Commodore in New York during the vacation. Webster F. Williams '35 and Edward A. Langenau '35 captured the epee team championship...
...appointment of Howard C. Hoople, former Syracuse oarsman, to the position of assistant coach of Freshman crew for the spring rowing season. Hoople, who graduated from Syracuse with the class of 1920, and who rowed there on the varsity crew, will help Freshman Coach Bert Haines. He replaces Al Webster '31, who has assisted Haines for the last two years...
Epee: Steele (S) defeated Edward A. Langenau '35, 2-1; Webster F. Williams '35 defeated Harris (S), 2-1 and Steele (S), 2-0; Langenau defeated Harris...