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Referring to your editorial on fencing in Saturday's issue, I think a few words may justly be said in defence of the maintenance of intercollegiate matches in what is essentially a gentleman's sport, and one which should hold a high place among athletics at Harvard...
...state further that, "Apparently the attractions of the game do not excite the ambitions of many Harvard undergraduates." Let us see what is done to make the sport attractive. Fencing is a sport which requires a professional fencing master, and the lessons and equipment cost each member of the team about $50 per season, which he pays out of his own pocket, for the Athletic Association pays nothing towards coach or equipment. Thus out of 30 odd original candidates but a dozen remained--simply because they could not or did not care to assume this expense, an expense the members...
Would it not be well, then, to provide the necessary fencing masks, and give the team a fair show, before considering the abolition of the most attractive indoor sport? H. T. ERHARD...
...announcement that the scrub fencing tournament has been abandoned because of an insufficient number of entries is another instance of the lack of interest taken in fencing at Harvard. Compared with this sport, basketball is a flourishing institution. Very few men go out for the University team, and at the class tournament last month one member of the Freshman team was absent and the Juniors were not represented at all. No wonder the University team failed to qualify for the intercollegiate tournament in the last two years. When there is so little general interest taken that the majority...
...cannot find fault with fencing as a sport as we can with basketball, because it has been shown to be one of the best forms of indoor exercise, and is recommended by many experts for the general development of the body. But apparently the attractions of the game do not excite the ambitions of many Harvard undergraduates, and the uniform unsuccess of the team has not tended to increase its popularity. As long as the feeling exists that the number of intercollegiate athletic contests should be reduced, and even if there were no such feeling, it would be well...