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...dozen or so different types of lenses. Photographer Chester Lyons used 47 in Sequoia. Pack trains carried film from location to a base camp daily whence it was shipped 300 miles to the studio laboratories to be developed. "Rushes"' returned to the location spot two days later. Though arduous, Sequoia was comparatively cheap to make since its principals, now on tour in cities where the picture will be shown, received only beef and carrots...
Once the then arduous trip to Ottawa had been completed the team found itself welcomed and feted by officials and citizens alike. Expenses were paid, sleighs for transportation were provided, (it snowed in the good old days) and the eleven was lined up before a large audience. Just before the Governor General of Canada stepped onto the field to put the ball in play, the Ottawa manager noticed that the Harvard team only had eleven men. Ottawa always played fifteen and when they had obligingly cut down their number, the Harvard outfit was able to roll up 24 points...
Members of the party have been preparing themselves here this fall for the arduous climb by exercise on a stationary bicycle and tread mill in the Fatigue Laboratory at Harvard. The bicycle will be taken to the mountains. There the pulse rate, respiration, and blood of the men will be studied at various altitudes after and during workouts on the bicycle, and the findings compared with those made here this fall...
...should be expected adequately to be prepared. It may be argued that only men with high academic standing are allowed to waive the language requirements in entering Dean Chase's school. While this may indeed be the case, attention must be called to the fact that it is an arduous task to carry four regular graduate courses in addition to preparing a thesis without the additional burden of grounding one's self in one or two foreign languages. There may be individuals who are capable of withstanding this tremendous strain, but for the average man it means either failure...
Stealthily, after an arduous ascent, he stood confident before the offending door ready to bring the swift justice of the law to the unsuspecting voice within Flinging open the door he stood mightily on the threshold and gazed bewildered upon the scene that lay unfolded... There before him stood a stocky and amazed youth interrupted in the midst of rehearsing his part for a female role in the Kirkland House play. Chagrined and defeated the guardian of the fair name of Harvard sought the protective cover of the night...