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...country of moss, bog, rotting vegetation, and mud, on which flourish grotesque plants that seem to have survived from a past era . . . and make more desirable the fresh purity of the snows which lie beyond." In the mists of Ruwenzori, Mountaineer Tilman admits that he and his companion, Eric Shipton, lost their way, their tempers, and almost their lives-in addition to which he dropped his camera, broke his wrist watch, while Shipton sprained his shoulder hanging onto shrubs on a convex slope...
...place alone it is possible to break through. The Rishinala, the gorge made by glacial waters draining from these peaks out of the valley, provides a long chimney 4,000 feet deep, along the walls of which it will be necessary to pack the supplies. Shipton and Tilman, two Englishmen who discovered the gorge in 1924 and the only men ever to enter this valley, found that it took them two days to work through the Rishinala before they were able to get to the valley...
...into space. But in sleeping bags within their tiny tents a group of Englishmen and tough Tibetan porters out to conquer unconquered Mt. Everest (29,140 ft.) rested contentedly last week. Camp No. 3 had been safely established at 21,500 ft. Francis Sydney Smythe and Eric Earle Shipton,both crack Alpinists and members of the unsuccessful...
...teaching staff will be Rene E. Clark 2G as instructor in French, Dr. Gerald F. Else 4G as professor of Classical Languages, Lawrence C. Jenks 3G as professor of Mathematics, Dr. Joseph M. Odiorne, assistant in Zoology at Harvard as professor of Biology, and Dr. Clifford R. Shipton '26 as professor of History...
...Lect. Hall Mr. Dealey, D1, D2, D3, D4 Memorial Hall Mr. Gregory, G1, G2, G3 Memorial Hall Mr. Hutchinson, R1, R2 Harvard 5 Mr. Vickers, V1, V2, V3 Harvard 6 Government 21 Sever 8 Greek G I Sever 30 Greek 8 Sever 29 History 11 Bailey-Sawyer Harvard 2 Shipton-Wright Harvard 3 History 35 Sever 35 History 55 Bender-Green Emerson A Healy-Wright Emerson F Mathematics A IV Sever 35 Mathematics C IV Sever 24 Mathematics 22a Sever 36 Mineralogy 14 Geol. Mns. 22 Music 1a Music Bidg. 4 Philosophy 13a Emerson J Physics 4a Emerson J Romance...