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Hans C. Duus, Austin Fellow in Chemistry, was one of the principal speakers at a dinner of Greater Boston Alumni of Carleton College, Northfield, Minn., held at the Washington Court, Brattle Street, Saturday night. Mr. W. H. Geer, director of physical education, who graduated from Carleton in 1908, was toastmaster...
From the squash courts under the guidance of Mr. W. H. Geer, Mr. D. J. Kelly and Mr. N. W. Fradd, they will be conducted on a tour of investigation of all the athletic facilities of the University. Reassembling at Hemenway Gymnasium about 4 o'clock, they will be addressed by Dean Henry Wyman Holmes '03, Dean of the Graduate School of Education, who will speak on the opportunity in the Graduate School to take courses leading to the Master's degree of Education in the field of physical education. Mr. Geer will follow with a resume of the present...
...erection of a new gymnasium somewhere between Massachusetts avenue and the Freshman dormitories as soon as funds are available, and the immediate construction of a swimming pool as the first unit of such a plant--these are the outstanding features of Mr. W. H. Geer's report to President Lowell for the academic year...
William H. Geer, Harvard director of physical education, reported to an Athletic Research Society meeting in Atlanta as follows: In a group of 159 oarsmen who rowed between 1852 and 1900, 67 had died in 1920; the total number of years lived by them plus the probable number of years to be lived was 7,389 years. According to the life-expectancy tables there would have been 96 deaths and a total of only 6,709 years lived...
...conclusion drawn from Mr. Geer's limited survey is that the popular myth according to which good athletes die young, is false...