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Willamette University will graduate during the course of the following three years, and shall receive degrees indicative of the merger of the two schools, and the alumni of both schools will be consolidated under the Medical Department of the University of Oregon, which becomes at once the only school of medicine in the Pacific Northwest. This is the largest territory in the United States that is served by but one medical school.

Mt. Jefferson. First Ascended in 1888. One of the most beautiful of the snow-capped mountains in Oregon, Fhoto, Weistcr.

MT. JEFFERSON and certainly the most difficult to climb, is Mt. Jefferson, located on the summit of the Cascade Range in the north-eastern part of Linn County. According to the most recent measurements Mt. Jefferson has an altitude of 10,523^ feet. It was the last of the snowy peaks in the Northwest to surrender its topmost point to the explorations of the mountain climber. On the apparent summit of Mt. Jefferson is a pinnacle approximately 700 feet in height that thwarted the "iMineral Resources of Oregon," Vol. 2, No. 1.