Word: geer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Basketball now owes its existence to Mr. Geer. For fifteen years prior to his arrival, the game had been utterly abandoned, but Mr. Geer caused its return into the curriculum of University athletics...
...Geer was a member of the Faculty of Arts and Science and of the Faculty of the Graduate School of Education. He was also director of the summer school of physical education, an organization to which hundreds of men and women come each summer for instruction. Dr. Roger 1. Lee '01, who was responsible for bringing Mr. Geer to Harvard, was his adviser and helper in forming the department of physical education, and took charge of his case at the Massachusetts General Hospital. Dr. Lee said, in remarking on Mr. Geer's place in Harvard yesterday: "Mr. Geer had been...
...following motion was passed by the Athletic Committee at a meeting last night in connection with Mr. Geer's death...
...Athletic Committee has learned with the deepest regret of the death of Wm. H. Geer, Director of Physical Education in Harvard University. The Committee deplores the loss to the University of a Zealous servant and a stimulating leader in his chosen field...
Professor George H. Chase '96, acting Dean of the University, made the following statement in regard to the death of Mr. Geer: "In the death of William H. Geer, Harvard College has lost a man who, in the comparatively short time that he had been in Cambridge, had made for himself a very definite place in the Harvard community. Coming here in 1919 to develop with Dr. Roger I, Lee '01, the plan of physical education for Freshmen, he showed himself from the first to be a skillful organizer and an indefatigable worker. Under his direction, a scheme which might...