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...event was assured in the sparring it was felt that it would be manifestly unjust to hold a meeting and charge admission. The only reasonable explanation for the small number of entries is that the interest in sparring and wrestling is dying out at Harvard. In the shot contest there was an encouraging sign of interest...
...Yale fencing club has reversed its decision of not contesting in the coming intercollegiate fencing tournament which is to be held in New York in a few weeks. Yale's refusal was based on the ground that a representative team could not be formed in the prescribed time. Now that Yale has accepted the initation of the Harvard and Columbia fencing clubs the contest will be between the teams of these three colleges. By far the best man who will enter the tournament is L. M. Lawson, of Columbia, who is one of the best amateur fencers in the country...
There is only one thing that can mar the pleasantness of the Harvard Night, and that one thing is any demonstration not prompted by quiet gentlemanliness. It must be remembered that the occasion is wholly different from an athletic contest, and that the methods of applause must also be different. Any expressions of rowdyism are not to be feared, but many men do fear that there will be cheering and they dread such an event. On some accounts, it seems natural that we should cheer, but the reasons against it are much stronger. Noise and boisterousness would be altogether...
...more benefit to the students than any other form of athletics, because they are of such a character that a very large number of students can, tentatively at least, take part in them. We are frank to say that, if the heavier and more exciting forms of athletic contest should threaten to kill out interest in the lighter and more quiet forms, we should be opposed to them. Athletics, like everything else, ought to be for the many and not for the few. We believe that the opportunities which the Athletic Association afford for training are of the very best...
Rule IV. No student shall be permitted to participate in any athletic contest until he shall have procured a certificate of physical fitness issued by the director of physical culture, in conformity with the rules hereafter to be adopted by the Faculty Conference Committee...