Word: motions
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...second of the Union's series of sport motion-pictures will be shown on the screen in the Living Room at 7.30 o'clock tonight. Besides the tennis reel which will be of the slow-motion type, a Mack Sennett comedy, entitled "The Wild Goose Chase", featuring Ben Turpin, will be shown...
...however praiseworthy the purpose in Dr. Kennedy's mind, it is doubtful if professors alone will ever succeed in endowing colleges with a right perspective in athletics. Whenever the pendulum does swing to its proper position, the motion, will begin in a subjective impetus. Although faculties may be counted on for support, the solution of this problem in American education lies almost entirely with the students themselves...
...clock tomorrow, the Union will show on the screen of the Living Room the second of its series of slow-motion pictures on athletics. Tomorrow's pictures will have to do with tennis, and it is expected that the exhibit will prove as popular as the first series, in which football slow-motion pictures were shown. Nearly 200 persons were turned away on that occasion for lack of space...
...CRIMSON reporter: "I advise all tennis enthusiasts to be present. The pictures have a distinct educative value, and are interesting as they allow the spectator to see whether the champions whose play seems so perfect during match play, have any defects when subjected to the test of slow-motion pictures...
...tutor has an unrivalled opportunity to cultivate in the student the habit of reading good books. This is a declining practice these days; the public rears newspapers or magazines or the novels of the day, but more often it does not read at all; it looks at motion pictures, or it listens to the gramophone or the radio, or it occupies its leisure with action, such as driving or camping or dancing. If the college could enter a wedge into the customs of the country by instilling at least in the student the habit of reading good books, it would...