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Mountaineering Club Holds Tenth Anniversary Dinner

Houston, Hall, Washburn Speak on Last Summer's Climbs

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Celebrating its tenth anniversary the Harvard Mountaineering Club last night held its annual fall dinner at the Hotel Commander.

The feature speakers of the evening were Charles S. Houston '35, who showed moving pictures of his ascent of Mt. Foraker, a 17,300 foot peak in the Alaska range, and Henry S. Hall '19, who explained and showed photographs of his four attempts to climb Mt. Waddington, a 13,000 foot peak in the Coast Range of British Columbia. The evening was concluded with a brief account by Bradford Washburn '31. President of the club, of the conquest last summer, of Mt. Crillon by a Harvard-Dartmouth expedition under his leadership.

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