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Undaunted by avalanches and snow slides, the Crimson skiers will travel to Pinkham Notch this weekend to compete in the Appalachian Mountain Club's Invitation race to be run on the Wildcat Trail Sunday morning and afternoon...
Coached by Charlie Proctor, former Olympic skier from Dartmouth, the Crimson skiers spent last Sunday practicing on the tricky corners which provide the obstacles on the Wildcat descent. Feeling confident in their knowledge of the run, Captain Adams Carter and his mates hope to place well up among 47 skiers already entered in the event...
...readers who still took the unreconstructed view that the Western World had been invaded in 1914 by a barbarian horde, an Xerxes' host, Theodor Wolff's study of war origins would seem a surprisingly civilized Persian version. The Eve of 1914 let no unsuspected wildcat out of the bag but recounted in scholarly, Teutonic detail the train of gunpowder facts that led from 1909 to the explosion five years later. Laymen found it hard going, but historians hailed it as important, called it the best study of war origins since Sidney Fay's The Origins...
Never inactive, even for a weekend when they do not plan to enter any meets, the Crimson skiers will spend two days running the Wildcat and Taft trails under the guidance of Coach Charley Proctor...
Captain Carter and twelve or fifteen of his men will go up to Jefferson, which they will use as their headquarters. Tomorrow they will speed down the Wildcat in Pinkham Notch...