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...closed his eyes and still saw a river, another river which looped almost directly beneath him as he lay at the rim of the valley and gazed a dizzy thousand feet down a sheer granite cliff. This river was also slow and gently, meandering through meadows which were solid yellow from their cloaks of mountain daisies. But it was the quiet of a river which is battered and exhausted from the reckless rush through a steep gorge where it has been cut to snowy foam against the chaotic jumble of jagged boulders, where it has hurtled over precipices...
Opposite Vag was another granite wall, rising as steeply from the valley floor as the walls of a room. The vast expanse of bare rock, which swept upward with breath-taking rapidity, was as ponderously grand as the earth itself. Crowning the cliff was an abrupt line of forest; and Vag could imagine wandering into it. Here were no scrub-by pines with long dusty-green needles--mere chaparral growth such as covered the foot--hill slopes-but high-mountain firs and redwoods, giants which had already lived through many centuries. They formed an auditorium with a roof far above...
After a picnic lunch in the woods, the intrepid dared to beard the god in his den at Titan's Piazza on Mount Holyoke. Titan, unfortunately, was out, but Professor Mather Welcomed the Harvard boys to this high cliff under the impending columns of rock...
Before an interested audience of Milton couples, gone a maying, 18 doughty climbers from the Harvard Mountaineering Club made their first spring climb yesterday at Rattle-snake Cliff in the Blue Hill Reservation...
Seniors and Juniors have been aiding Coach Dick Harlow in the preliminary session this week with the Freshmen. George Klein, Joe Nee, Captain-elect Bob Green, Chief Boston, and Cliff Wilson were on hand yesterday to assist the Varsity mentors...