Word: motions
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...evolution of plant life is the subject of an extensive program of motion picture production to be undertaken in the tropics by Professor Oakes Ames '98 supervisor of the botanical interests of Harvard University, and W. O. Field Jr. '26 who are sailing from New York today on the S. S. Vivives for Cuba...
...spelled defeat last night for the Harvard hockey team when a hitherto un-hailed Boston Athletic Association sextet swept to a 6 to 4 victory in the Boston Arena. Lawless and Hardy rode on the crest of the wave that Channing Hilliard, brilliant B. A. A. wingman, set into motion when he made two unassisted goals in as many minutes early in the third period. The startling upset of the Crimson puckmen was wholly unexpected because of the comparatively easy 5 to 1 victory they achieved in a contest on January...
...When he was a lazy Columbia freshman, relatives promised him $2,500 for each year he remained at the University. He stayed 60 years. Always he mingled with undergraduates, went to proms, games, etc. Callow classmates gave him the special degree of D. P. M.-Doctor of Perpetual Motion. His university career paralleled the expansion of education. New courses and degrees were continually being offered in time to prevent him from exhausting the Columbia curriculum and so losing his annuity...
...Chemistry in Harvard University. Experiments on Clarence de Mar, the famous marathon runner, and other athletes and non-athletes, made by having them alternately run on a treadmill and lic still on a couch, show that the athlete's blood changes less than that of the ordinary man in motion. The acidosis of De Mar's blood remained static while running at an average rate of 5.8 miles per hour, when he consumed 3.5 liters of oxygen per minute and kept a pulse rate of 101. For comparison a non-athlete in the same test consumed 1.5 liters of oxygen...
...from paying any serious attention to his lurid pronunciamento, in which a few good points are so mingled with the numerous bad ones as to show the author was not in a position to distinguish between them. He points out that Harvard men are immune from the literature and motion pictures which take the American undergraduate for their subject. It is all for the best even though the medium is the genial and appreciative Mr. Roberts...