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After nightfall, General Auchinleck sent his Indian sharpshooters up the sides of Khazana Sar, two battalions to a peak. It was a perfect frontier night, cold and clear with a half moon. In the valley the General waited. At dawn he heard his Indian rifles sniping back at the Haji's son's snipers. The honor of storming the Pass went to the white men of the Highland Light. They advanced in deployed formation while their batteries threw metal over the Pass...
Fresh from a summer of exploration and peak-scaling, members of the Mountaineering Club will hold a meeting at 7.30 o'clock Wednesday evening in the Eliot House Junior Common Room to discuss plans for the coming year and instil some of their enthusiasm into Freshmen who wish to attend...
...unsuccessful attempt was made by William F. Loomis '36 to scale Mt. Waddington. This peak has never been climbed, although thirteen previous expeditions had tried Loomis was only 500 feet from the summit before he was forced to admit defeat...
Another party was led by Walter D. Wood '26, who, accompanied by his brother, Harrison Wood '36, reached the unconquered peak of Mt. Steele. This mountain, which is also in the Yukon region, is 16,400 feet high, making it one of the ten loftiest peaks in North America...
...titles, until last week he had never won a major singles championship. This season, most critics thought from Allison's performance abroad, when he lasted only one round at Wimbledon, lost to Perry, Austin and von Cramm in Davis Cup play, that, at 30, he had passed his peak as an athlete. Day after his match against Perry last week, Allison's opponent was the brilliant, tow-haired, temperamental Sidney Wood, who had reached the final by beating Bryan ("Bitsy") Grant, who had upset ailing young Donald Budge. Faced once more with a chance for a major championship...