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...doubt whether college authorities would approve of sport which involves so much time. We made inquiries a year or two ago and found that there was practically nothing available for many miles outside of Cambridge and that the cost even of distant possible sites was prohibitive. Incidentally the President is not in favor of a subscription being taken up among the graduates for such a purpose...
...team at 4 o'clock this afternoon, in the Fencing Room of the Hemenway Gymnasium. Norwich Academy is considered more or less of a "dark horse" in fencing circles, as it has not lately met any teams in the intercollegiate leagues. But as fencing at Norwich is a major sport and is coached by retired army officers, the University foilsmen expect an interesting match...
...misfortune, of course, attaches to the devoted followers of the sport in the University and to those ambitious youths who would like to become devotees if they had an opportunity. A game, which, like squash, can be continued in later life with all the benefits and eagerness of youth golf deserves every facility and stimulus which can be given it. But two hundred thousand dollars looms rather large on a college horizon--and even if some generous benefactor should present the entire sum with no strings attached, such as a Chairman in Anglo-Saxon poetry or India philology it might...
...offers almost the only opportunity for interesting exercise; and squash facilities are limited. Extension of the system of competitive contest among graduate school teams, and possibly among those undergraduates who are not engaged in organized college activities, may prove the touchstone that will bring back the interest of undergraduate sport to the relatively inactive students of Law and Business...
Although the French have in the past borrowed many other sporting words from the English and the American languages, it does not necessarily follow that they are pronounced in the same way. For example, sport is pronounced spor, knock-out as knookoot...