Word: treks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Students not up to the trek to New Haven can see the game on the many sets in the University, including those in Adams, Winthrop, and Lowell Houses. The Union Committee is holding a special smoker centered around their television set. As always, local bars will be available with television to those who want to simulate the extra curricular of watching a football game and don't mind standing...
...service to Canton had been cut, and U.S. planes were barred from the province by a Sino-Russian treaty. Old China Hand Paxton, who had come to the Orient first with his missionary parents at the age of two, called his staff together for a conference. They decided to trek out of embattled Tihwa by truck and jeep, over the age-old route across the mighty Himalayas to India...
...came into its own 98 years ago, thanks largely to a London physician named Albert Smith who could not keep his enthusiasm to himself. Among the first ever to scale white-domed Mont Blanc, the highest (15,781 ft.) of Alpine peaks, Smith produced a play based on his trek. It was no great shakes as drama, but it caught on like the Wild West shows in the U.S., ran six years in London, and gave people who had never seen a mountain the urge to climb...
...Matterhorn (14,780 ft.), a jagged spire of rock to which little snow clings, the white stairway of Mont Blanc looks deceptively accessible from Chamonix in the valley below. Any tourist with an urge can hire guides and make the one-day ascent by cable car and a trek across the Bossons Glacier to the Grands-Mulets Hotel. If he still wants more, he can be awakened at 1 a.m. next morning for the big climb to the summit, more than a mile higher over treacherous snow crevasses, where high winds blow unceasingly and there is a constant threat...
Following their regular schedule, the seven house teams will make the long trek down to New Haven on November 18th to face their traditional rival colleges at Yale; the respective top league teams will at the same time fight their annual battle for the two-college championship...