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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Eleven Harvard Clubs, scattered from Pasadena to Boston and Utica to Dallas, Texas, have arranged for showings of the Harvard Film, which has just been completed by the Harvard Film Foundation, it was announced yesterday by H. C. Clark '11, Alumni Secretary. The picture received its first showing in tentative form before the directors of the Alumni Association at their meeting last month and its second before the Harvard Club of Buffalo last Tuesday, where it was enthusiastically received. The movie consists of three reels of glimpses of Harvard activities, people, and buildings, and takes about 40 minutes to show...
...lung capacity was revealed yesterday by Dr. L. J. Henderson '98, Professor of Biological 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...
...diabolically clever masterpiece. He takes a couple of thousand words to prove that Harvard men are egocentric asses trying to appear indifferent when they are not, starving in Harvard Square hashhouses, and lying prostrate in idolatrous worship of the Great God Final Club. He takes a concluding paragraph to show that Harvard men are studious and passable. The result is a highly spiced article of sure-fire appeal to a public which wants its college atmosphere belching fire and brimstone...
...last analysis, Mr. Roberts himself frees the Harvard man 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...
...dinner of the Harvard Mountaineering Club at the Harvard Union tomorrow night at 6.30 o'clock. Dr. Underhill is the first American to have climbed these three ascents, notorious for their length and difficulty, and which only one other man has ever surmounted. Other members of the Club will show slides and motion pictures at the dinner, tickets for which may be obtained from the secretary at 57 Westmorly Hall...