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 he acquired some knowledge of an athletic system known as Hakuda, then much practiced by the Chinese. He learned three different methods of Hakuda as well as twenty-eight ways of recovering a man from apparent death. One day he noticed a willow tree bending under a weight of snow but with none of the branches breaking. So in accordance with this idea and what he had learned in China he established the famous Yoshin-riu--"the spirit of the willow tree school." In Japan the art is only taught to men of great moral as well as physical character and before receiving a single lesson the pupil must take an oath never to reveal the secrets of the art.

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.

At the 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 fee.