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About a dozen hardy looking schuss-men showed up for the first practice of the season with their long slender cross-country boards carefully waxed with Skare for the occasion, but the captain, Del Ames '42 was detained in the north woods by good snow conditions, and last year's captain, Tom Winship '42, got bogged down in a Boston ski shop...
...stay on their own side of the Atlantic during March. This year, with Europe verboten, the habitues of St. Moritz, St. Anton and other Alpine resorts have discovered that the U. S. has pretty good skiing, too. Instead of a troop of self-taught enthusiasts who yell "track" and schuss helter-skelter down a hill, the U. S. now boasts a well-trained army of 1,000,000 or more whose snowplows and Christies are as polished as their skis. Instead of a few isolated trails, there is a nationwide labyrinth of skiing terrain-with villages challenging the Gemutlichkeit...
About a dozen undergraduates will join with the Hochgobirge and Schuss-verein clubs to make up the Harvard team. Among the outstanding graduates will be Alexander H. Bright '19, Thomas D. Cabot '20, Charles D. Peirson '25 and Herbert S. Sise '34, last year's captain...