Word: crews
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Richard C. Floyd '11, president of the Club, has announced the more elaborate program yet arranged for one of these dinners. Other speakers beside the former world's heavyweight champion will be William J. Bingham 16. Director of Athletics, Thomas D. Belies, new crew coach, Richard C. Harlow, head coach of football, and James J. Gaffney, Jr. '37, captain of the football team...
Moreover, why are such a large proportion of those men living at the Varsity Club always good athletes? Why is t that in the autumn the waiters at the Varsity Club are football men and in the spring crew candidates...
Skin Specialist Charles Howard White of Cambridge, England, and Physicist William Henry Crew of New York University became good friends last year while the latter spent a sabbatical year at Cambridge University. Result of that friendship was the first demonstration that "windburn" is really sunburn, proof of which they published in Science last week...
Professor Crew attacked the problem with direct simplicity. He made himself a sleeve from a length of automobile tire inner tube, in which he cut a square-inch aperture. Slipping his arm into the sleeve, Professor Crew thrust it into the 40 m.p.h. blast blown through a sunless wind-tunnel ordinarily used for testing model airplanes. During a half-hour exposure to the blast, the square-inch of bare skin "exhibited ''goose-flesh' but at no subsequent time was there the slightest evidence of reddening or chapping of the exposed area of skin," reported Professor Crew...
While covered with perspiration people sunburn very slowly because sweat filters out the burning actinic rays of the sun. When Dr. Whittle and Professor Crew recollected this fact, they concluded that a strong wind evaporates sweat, exposes the skin to unfiltered sunlight which causes the sunburn usually believed to be windburn. Wind by itself, they are sure, does not injure human skin...