Word: motioned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Four motion-picture films prepared by, or in the possession of, the University Film Foundation will be released during the coming month. The first of these, a film entitled "Grass," taken in the wilderness of central Asia, will be shown at the Harvard Union on Tuesday, February 10, at 8 o'clock in the evening...
...University Film Foundation started operating as a non-profit, educational institution, chartered for the purpose of producing motion-picture films of scientific, artistic, and industrial value, in collaboration with the faculty and staff of Harvard University. The studios and laboratory were located at 40 Oxford Street, Cambridge...
...Torres of the Manila municipal board (son of a supreme court justice of the Spanish regime). No prude but by hobby a criminologist, President Torres had declared: "70% of the present day crimes and immorality have been provoked ... by imported films. I particularly resent the influence which the motion pictures are having on the thousands of college men and women in this educational center. Our students, without knowing that the pictures which the movies give of American college life are distorted, flock to these films portraying college love and then go out and try to reproduce what they see there...
...quoted an editorial printed this month in the A. M. A. Journal: "By some of the strange influences known only to politicians, President Hoover was induced to apply to a pushbutton in Washington the presidential digit, thereby giving to the presses in Muscatine the electrical juice necessary to induce motion, whereby inked rollers applied to paper aided still further the dissemination of Baker's notions and nostrums. . . . Somewhere, somehow, some secretary succeeded in precipitating the President of the United States into a situation that awaits explanations." Herbert Clark Hoover, engineer, was graduated from Stanford University in 1895 with...
...third parties. The triangular crew race between Harvard, Princeton and M.I.T., scheduled by invitation of the latter, is the latest of these instances, which are pleasant and desirable, but in no way capable of healing any breaches or fundamentally altering the status quo. We second the CRIMSON's motion that future meetings be held through the initiative for officials of the two institutions themselves. It is our opinion that negotiations in regard to football should be postponed until such date as a mutually satisfactory policy can be agreed upon. But, in the meantime, there appends no compelling reason, from...