The announcements that, in addition to Harvard, Annapolis and Columbia, Yale and Cornell will probably be participants in the intercollegiate fencing tournament this spring and that this year for the first time the Harvard team is to be picked from the whole University instead of from the Fencing Club makes the tournament of greater importance as an athletic event and thus attracts more general attention to it than has ever before been the case.

As the time for the intercollegiate and junior tournaments draws near, the important question arises whether the University will be able to maintain its unbroken record of victories. Two of the three men who composed last year's intercollegiate team have graduated, and, according to the rules, none of the team which won the junior tournament last year is eligible for that contest again. It is evident then that any fencer in the University, whether a member of the Fencing Club or not, has an excellent chance to make one of the teams this year. As a large number of candidates is a great aid to the development of new material, all who know anything about fencing are advised and urged to enter the open tournament for new men to be held at the Fencing Club next Tuesday night.