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...members were shown another fundamental way to get up a rock--the layback, a rather novel way of lying back against the cliff while holding on to next to nothing, and hitching along like an inchworm...
Colored slides of climbing in the Canadian Rockies near Lake Louise were shown after the movies, and there was discussion on the club's program for the coming year, including use of the hut on Mt. Washington, and the Sunday climbs nearby to start men out on rock-scaling. The first of these expeditions will be next Sunday...
...brilliantly successful. In the history of Harvard-Yale cross country competition the Crimson forces have met defeat only three times, in 1924, 1933, and 1936. The ten year interval between 1924 and 1933 was not to be immediately repeated, and whether last year's low ebb was but bed rock for another long series of victories over the Blues is highly doubtful. For this fall Coach Jaakko Mikkola is faced with the dull prospect of preparing a now starless team for the combined Harvard-Yale-Princeton run November 5 at Cambridge...
...Samurai-Admiral appeared almost a freak. To get to Nanking before the deadline he had set for its destruction last week, U. S. correspondents and cameramen leaped into any kind of car they could hire at Shanghai, tore off over 160 miles of road so rough that a jagged rock punctured the crankcase of one car. Nimbly the Chinese chauffeur repaired it with a piece of chamois skin and a can opener, dashed on with his cargo of foreign devils bound for the scene of advertised atrocities...
Peace especially visited the seven miles of tunnels, 140 miles of costly, well-constructed roadbed through the nine dark ridges of the Alleghenies. Grass overgrew "South Penn" embankments, saplings pushed their way through its rock ballast and water seeped higher and higher over the rubble of the tunnels. For half a century nothing stirred in those dark caverns except some albino, sightless trout which according to Pennsylvania Highway Planning Division's Director Kaulfuss "mysteriously developed in these unnatural, impounded waters...