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Hy Aexeciated Vocmet BROOKLINE, Mass., Muay 1%. The dream of the remarkable mother of a remarkable family at last is being realized. Fencing has been a major in terest in the life of Mrs. Eleander Baldwin Cass since she was 17 years old. And she has trained her five sons until they, too, are experts with the foils. But there were long years, she says, when fencing was almost in total eclipse in America and she was one of a small group that strove to keep alive interest in this ancient sport, whose begin ning is lost in antiquity. At last, Mrs. Cass says, fencing is gaining in popularity so that now it seems to have positively established itself in the heart of the American public. Fencing always has been pop ular in the Cass family. John, the eldest son, now studying at the Yale medical school; ‘Robert, of Washington, D. C.; Francis, Leo and Edward of Brookline—the lat ter a student at Boston college— all are masters with the foils. But Mrs. Cass has not been con tent to pass on her fencing skill to her boys. In exhibitions with her sons and by teaching she has striven to widen the circle of fencing enthusiasts. Hence, she states with consider able elation that some 40 schools in Boston now have a call for fencing courses. The appearance of a young Boston society girl or student rushing through — stately Copley Square, foil in hand, she says, is no longer an unusual spectacle. — Under Mrs. Cass's tutelage such girls’ colleges at Wheaton, Smith and Jackson now are imparting lessons in fencing to classes of ‘students. It is the same all over the country, Mrs. Cass asserts, basing her statement upon letters from many educational institutions as far distant from New England as Texas and California. Behind all this Mrs. Cass per ceives a most excellent reason. Fencing, she asserts, brings out a general mental response found in no other sport and, she says, fits one for competition in any other form of athletics. — “There is nothing which de velops such perfect balance and gives as great social and moral poise as this particular sport.” Enthusiasm for fencing led Mrs. Eleanor Baldwin Cass to impart her skill to her five sons: Robert (upper left), John (upper right), Francis (lower right), and Leo and Edward (below).
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Sat, May 18, 1929
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