Word: agassiz
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Professor Philip Drinker and Louis Agassiz Shaw of the Harvard School of Public Health three years ago invented the Drinker Respirator, at the suggestion of Consolidated Gas Co. of New York City. The gas company wanted a device to resuscitate asphyxiated persons. The Drinker machine does that (TIME, Sept. 8, 1930). It is a metal box weighing 700 Ib. A person unable to breathe voluntarily is sealed in the chamber, all except his head. An electric pump creates a mild, interrupted vacuum in the sealed box. The vacuum is sufficient to pull up the victim's chest. That action...
...first public appearance of the Radeliffe College Orchestra will be May 15 at 3 o'clock in the living room of the Agassiz House. The orchestra is under the direction of Catherine S. Balley '23, and is conducted by Ruth Glover...
Mixed teams from the Harvard-Radcliffe debating councils will meet in Agassiz Hall tomorrow night at 8 o'clock. The subject for discussion is to be, "Resolved, That the trend of modern advertising is deplorable...
Major Henry Lee Higginson married the daughter of the late great Naturalist Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz. Their son, Alexander ("Aleck") Henry Higginson is a famed foxhunter, divides his time between his 400-acre farm in South Lin- coln, Mass, and England where he is a Master of the Cattistock Hunt. His son, Henry Lee Higginson, is also a gentleman of leisure...
...date of the annual production of the Menorah societies of Harvard and Radcliffe has just been announced, and will be presented on Thursday and Saturday evenings, April 9 and 11 in the Agassiz theatre at Radcliffe. The play this year will be "Jud Suss," a drama in three acts by Ashley Dukes, which is based on "Power," the historical romance of Leon Feuchtwanger...