Word: eyeful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sponsored by a committee of nine men, Colonel Morris Frank, lecturer of the "Seeing Eye" school in Morristown, New Jersey, will give an illustrated talk on the work of training dogs to guide the blind. The lecture, open to all interested, will take place Monday in the Kirkland House Common Room and will start at 7:15 o'clock...
...Company still retains its place as the foremost ballet group in the world. The productions are exceedingly satisfying both to the eye and ear, and the orchestra which accompanies the dancers is not the least part of their success. The opportunity offered by this visit is one to take advantage of--for this is an art which is best appreciated by itself without the encumbrance of opera...
Thus was suggested the electric eye, and Guilleman on behalf of the Fatigue Laboratory offered to build the machine. With the beginning of school this fall the machine was set up and put into operation. As it stands new the apparatus is strung over a distance of 35 yards. Six beams of light at designated intervals cross the runners path, with the lights on one side and the reflectors on the other...
...most valuable functions of this electric eye set-up is to determine the normal reaction to the report of the starter's gun. Reaction, as determined by the first light, varies from .56 to .36 of a second, Varsity sprinter Fred Ulen having the record for the fastest reaction. Consistently the experienced men trained to a starter's gun have the fastest reaction...
...with the electric eye track coaches at Harvard can measure and individual's performance over any part of a given distance. They can show the athlete just where he needs to concentrate his efforts, whether in his start or further on. In time Neufeld hopes to be able to find out exactly what type of warmup suits each of his runners. Later on Head Coach Jaakko Mikkola hopes to not only measure his boys over the long distances, but to use the machine to determine the best hurdling form on the standpoint of speed...