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...exhibition of the Japanese art of Jiujitsu, a method of self-defence, will be given in the Living Room of the Union this evening at 8 o'clock, by an expert Japanese wrestler, Professor Y. Yamashita, instructor of Jiujitsu in Tokio and an assistant. This exhibition, which will be similar to those given by Professor Yamashita in Cambridge last spring, will be open to members of the Union only. After the exhibition the Glee Club will give as informal concert...
...first Union entertainment of the year will be given in the Living Room, Monday evening at 8 o'clock, when Professor Y. Yamashita, instructor in Jiujitsu at Tokio, will give an exhibition similar to those given by him last June. After the exhibition the Glee Club will give an informal concert...
Professor Y. Yamashita and Mr. H. Koidzumi assisted by A. Tyng '04 and H. Taylor '07, gave a very interesting exhibition of the Japanese art of Jiujitsu or Jiudo wrestling in the Living Room of the Union last night. Samuel Hill '79, as whose guests the two wrestlers have come to this country, gave a short history of the art in introducing them. He said in part: Jiudo first became known in Japan in the sixteenth century, and its origin is traced to a learned physician named Akiyama, who at that time lived in Nagasaki. While studying in China...
First Professor Yamashita and Mr. Koidzumi showed several of the three hundred and three ways of throwing a man. The entertainment was concluded by two wrestling bouts, one between Professor Yamashita and Taylor and the other between Mr. Koidzumi and Tyng...
...conclusion of the exhibition Mr. Hill announced that if twenty-five men sign the blue books that will be placed today in Leavitt & Peirce's and in the Union, Professor Yamashita will remain in Cambridge and give lessons in Jiudo, beginning next fall. The charge for the full course of lessons which will last through the entire year will be $100, but if desired, the course will be divided between two or more men, each man paying his share of the total...