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Christmas came yesterday to 25 poor boys of Cambridge, when L. F. Daley '27 in the role of Santa Claus came down the chimney of the Phillips Brooks House living room, loaded with presents and good cheer...
...third day we rode some four miles upstream to one of the highest lakes. We left the stock at the lake, to feed on the meadow, and, following the trail on foot to 12,000 feet, entered the "chimney"a narrow cleft in the granite, some 150 feet wide, which extends straight up the slope for 1,000 or so feet and enables one to get through the cliffs to the upper final slope of the crest, some distance south of the summit...
There is a trail of a sort, or rather a choice of many trails, meandering over the low ledges, boulders, and sand of the chimney; it is strenuous climbing in places, but perfectly safe, and one finally emerges on the gentler and smoother upper crest and soon joins a better trail coming from Lone Pine, north of Owen's Lake, crossing the crest at Whitney Pass, and following just below the rim north to the reak, passable for horses when the snow is not took deep in some of the gulches. From here it was a short and easy climb...
...cause for the coal fumes is a one foot chimney on the adjacent Harvard Garage, cunningly placed so that Westmorly's inhabitants are converted into synthetic brunettes before starting for their 9 o'clock classes...
...winds had delayed the start, how Lieutenant W. G. Tomlinson, on a trial flight, wrecked the best U. S. plane, a Curtiss Packard reputed to be capable of going 250 miles an hour. All week the flyers had been tuning up their seaplanes, practising pylon turns against a factory chimney near the Anacostia River...