Weekly Excursions of Outing Club Feature Exercise, Female Company

"Meet in front of the Coop at 9:30 o'clock" is an announcement familiar to all readers of the Notice Column and the Harvard Outing Club's bulletin board in Sever. Going into its sixth year of operation, the Club boasts that it is the most coeducational and non-exclusive extracurricular activity in the University.

Running at least one excursion a week, in conjunction with Radcliffe and other local colleges, and participating in the large camping trips of the Intercollegiate Outing Clubs Association, the club attracts a small but faithful group of physical enthusiasts. Though the present membership is only 18, there are normally 50 to 60 members from the College.

Under the summer chairmanship of Samuel Heyman '48, Sunday bicycle trips have been going out every week to beaches and lakes in the vicinity. An average trip has about six people, usually including three girls and amounts to 25 to 30 miles of pedaling. Plans are now being made for the "College Week" trip to the Adirondacks in September.

"College Week" is the climax of the year's activities of the IOCA, in which representatives of most of the New England and Middle Atlantic college outing clubs meet at Lake Coldon, in the heart of the Adirondacks, for a week of camping and mountain climbing. This is an informal affair with each member supplying his own equipment food, and transportation.

Trips to ice skating and skiing centers are featured in the winter, as well as the usual bicycling tours. Bike races were an annual event of the club prior to the war, and Heyman says that they will be revived this year. The record for the race is forty minutes from the Square to Wellesley. Distance records run to more than 110 miles a day.

Lots of Amazons

Of the 100 students expected at this year's "College Week," over half are girls, a fact which makes even mountain climbing interesting to some of the more slothful members. These girls, however, can take care of themselves. Some of them carry a 60 pound pack up a 5000 foot mountain or bike 90 miles in a day. Incidentally, a young couple accompanies the group to act as chaperones.

The club has not been price-gouging since the lapse of OPA. The dues are 25 cents a term.

IOCA, of which the College Outing Club is a member, is a loosely formed organization through which the intercollegiate trips are arranged. The Association's motto is, "Our Disorganization is Perfect.