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...good skiing week end. Pinkham Notch and Wildcat Trails: 10" of heavy wet snow, covered with hard crust. Need more snow: Mt. Mansfield: Stew, Vt.; four to six inches of snow with a few bare spots on the practice slopes. Up to 36" of snow on Mountain Tow rd. Nose Dive slide is patched with icy surfaces. Suicide to try this. Lesser trails better than Nose Dive but still bad: Mt. Cardigan; Alexandria N. H.; six and one half inches of old snow on practice slopes, '12" on Duke's trail. Main slides fair in spots. Some slopes still skiable...
...Blake and Don Reynolds have installed a second tow at Brookline, N. H. The main hill has been widened and the trees at the top of the run, as well as the rock piles below, have been removed. There is a new run, called the Depot trail. The lunch room has been renovated; the town of Brookline is going to clear a much larger parking area this season, and between Jan. 9 and Feb. 22 Norwood Cox, Harvard Coop ski pro, will have charge of the classes and individual instruction every Saturday afternoon and all day Sunday...
Every indication points to an administration sortie into Congress with the Canal in tow. And not far behind lurks the dismal shade of its twin blunder, the Passamaquoddy project. President Roosevelt, this time, undoubtedly has the power and prestige to browbeat a subservient Congress into a receptive mood. To do so, however, would be an appalling abuse of trust and confidence...
...skiing slopes, commissioned architects to plan a big lodge (capacity: 250). With Charles N. Proctor, Harvard's ski coach, U. P. engineers set to work on a lift which will carry the customers 1,500 ft. above the valley's floor. A modification of the ski-tow, which requires the effort of hanging on, the ski lift will reduce the physical exertion of skiing to almost nil. At regular intervals on a continuous cable moving 400 ft. per minute (a fast walk) are suspended chairs into which the skier may flop without removing his skis...
Getting out of hand in the second period when tow goals were scored, the Dartmouth soccer team went on to beat the varsity 3-1 here yesterday...