Education: First Blood

Tumbling out of their classrooms and onto their campus ashiver with excitement one day last week went all the 500 boys and girls of Los Angeles Junior College. The college faculty gathered to watch from a porch. Facing each other on the grass stood sturdy, curly-headed Student Robert Cousineau and wiry Student Harold Bauer, each stripped to the waist and each armed with a sword. As the excited audience chattered and peered, cameramen recorded the scene and newshawks watched intently. With full faculty approval, a duel was about to be fought. When...

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