Word: uppers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...find that upper classmen seem to have any real design for such tables this year, we may build the hall. It is true that the Freshmen have asked for such a hall, but we are not convinced that this expression fully states their feelings as they will become when they are upper classmen...
Herr Madsen Nydgal, Minister of Agriculture in the last Liberal Cabinet, was expected to be called to the Premiership by King Christian X. Meanwhile the electoral machinery of the Landsthing (Upper House) was not in motion, last week, since the Senators are elected only once in four years (for a term of eight years) by an elaborate system of electoral boards not scheduled to function again until 1928. The Danish nobility, of whom no more are created, have no ipso facto place in the Landsthing, but, on the other hand have the peculiar privilege of passing on their titles...
This, we followed up some miles, riding over successive roches moutonnees to one of the upper likes, where we found an excellent base camp, with wood, water, and good feed for the stock, and my companions quickly got out their fishing gear and started for the golden trout...
...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...