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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Mountaineering Club, which climbs hills and even went as far as Alaska to climb this summer, the Memorial Society, which remembers traditions, the Rifle Club, which blazes away in the ghostly recesses of the basement of Memorial Hall, the Flying club, which files, the language clubs (Circolo Italiano, Cercle Francais, Veriem Turmwaechter,) the religious organizations, and the "social", groups (with which you will not be concerned until next year), all these and more are part of the vast world of things at Harvard and all offer the benefit of friendship from common interests...
...Hannah (Fay Bainter). Otherwise, the formula is much the same. When Hannah straggles into the household of a high-school science teacher (Claude Rains), she turns out to be a jewel with a heart of gold. Besides lavishly fulfilling her exacting duties, Hannah sells the contents of the family basement at fabulous prices, facilitates a budding romance between young Sally Ward (Bonita Granville) and Peter Trimble (Jackie Cooper), stimulates Paul Ward to invent not one but two different types of automatic icebox, and cures Mrs. Ward of the chronic droops. By all this audiences are prepared to believe...
Despite this sniping, Classmate Bertie demonstrated last week that he still had the old school spirit. Early one morning, a fire started among the newsprint rolls in the basement of the Times plant, crippling the presses. Promptly, the Tribune offered its presses. Promptly, the Times accepted the Tribune''?, "good neighbor" offer and, missing but one edition, managed to run off 250,000 of its normal 380,000 daily print order. Fun-loving Times Managing Editor Louis Ruppel, onetime Washington correspondent of the New York Daily News, put a picture of his smoking plant on the front page with...
Making use of Harvard and local athletes, the Fatigue Laboratory in the basement of Morgan Hall in the Business School works quietly and continually. Clarence De Mar, San Romani, Johnny Kelley, Cunningham, Venzke, even Barry Wood have undergone tests by riding stationary bicycles and performing other fatiguing exercises. In addition, several dogs are employed to measure their amount of heart beats and quantity of lactic acid. The Harvard's Film Service has produced a moving picture for the Laboratory...
...basement rooms comprising the Service contain a complete movie laboratory with equipment for projecting, editing, titling, printing, and developing both 16mm, and 35mm. film--sound as well as silent. About 650 reels are projected each year for the University, especially in scientific courses like Biology, Engineering, and Psychology. In addition, the Services shows the French films and those of the Harvard Film Society, and handles the evening shows for the Geographical Institute...