Word: motion
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Arrangements have already been made with a film exchange in Boston, whereby the Phillips Brooks House Association is to have eight reels each week of the best motion pictures made. Some of the pictures will be of travel, some of science and invention and of drama...
...Phillips Brooks House Association purchased yesterday a new, standard sized Pathescope motion picture machine which will be used for the entertainment of the two training corps that are stationed in Cambridge for the summer. The University R. O. T. C. and also the Naval Radio Reserve studying at the Cruft Laboratory will be given picture entertainments throughout the next two months...
After the R. O. T. C. goes into barracks in the Freshman Halls the Association will fit out the Common Rooms for the men living in the halls, and will also continue to maintain the recreation rooms in Pierce Hall and in Phillips Brooks House. A motion picture machine will be purchased, and it is planned to give moving picture entertainments in the Smith Quadrangle...
More men are needed of this same cool, level-headed type. More training camps and more machines must be supplied. Our part is to supply men in such numbers that the slow wheels of a democratic government will be set in motion and the necessary equipment furnished. We must not fail to do our share in securing a powerful aviation corps if we hope to develop an army which will be effective on the battlefields of Europe...
Last week a campaign was inaugurated at Cornell toward the organization of a section in the American Ambulance Field Service. It is planned to furnish equipment for the unit and support for men who will volunteer their services. The committee in charge has scheduled entertainments, motion pictures and lectures with a view to arousing interest among the students...