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camp-fire the night before, prompt action being required 

 to register, as the lists were strictly limited. The secre- 

 tary's tent was the center of all information. Alpen- 

 stocks, woolen goods, goggles, Swiss nails, and other use- 

 ful climbing necessities could be secured from that ac- 

 commodating official. He issued all notices submitted by 

 the climbing committee and other officials, and every one 

 leaving camp for even an hour had to report to him, so 

 that he might know where to send the searching party 

 if any member failed to return. Before any climbing 

 party left camp, its members were obliged to answer to 

 the roll-call and were checked off the list. 



Nearly every day a climb was scheduled for graduating 

 applicants. Mt. Daly proved the most popular peak 

 selected as a test of eligibility, for it is over ten thousand 

 feet high and sufficiently strenuous to try the beginner's 

 nerve. Swiss guides were furnished by the Canadian 

 Pacific Railway Company, which properly recognizes the 

 advertising value of the outings as a stimulant to travel. 

 It assists the Club in every way, setting an example which 

 similarly situated railroads could well afford to follow. 

 The station-agent at Hector, for example, had been 

 specially appointed by the railroad to facilitate the rapid 

 handling of the club's supplies and dunnage. 



On the graduating climb up Mt. Daly the party was 

 limited to twenty, divided into four groups; the first led 

 by a Swiss guide, the others by active members in the 

 lead and rear, with the graduating members between. 



As the graduating* members far exceeded the available 

 active members, the latter were in demand and frequently 

 called upon by the chairman of the climbing committee. 



*A graduating member of the Alpine Club of Canada is one who desires 

 to become an active member, but who has not yet qualified. They divide 

 their membership into five grades — honorary, active, associate, graduating 

 and subscribing. The full definition of a graduating member is as follows: 

 "Graduating Members — Those who desire to become active members, but 

 who are not yet qualified. They shall be allowed to attend two annual 

 camps, but failing qualification at the end of the second camp, their names 

 shall be dropped from the roll of graduating members. They shall have 

 the option of becoming either associate or subscribing members." 



