Word: united
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first glance at the Humphrey "control room," as we feel forced to call his tremendous bank of electronic equipment, would look impressive even to the gas meter man. Prominently displayed in his system are three professional tape machines--the incomparable Crown 800, a Viking unit, and (a relic from a bygone era) one monaural Berlant. Bruce does a fair amount of live recording and remote duplicating; in fact you many have seen him making tapes of the Harvard-Radcliffe concerts...
...motor separately from the table to reduce the rumble even below its already low figure. A special belt had to be used to drive the table, since the one supplied by Rek-O-Kut was not adaptable for such use. A sheet of copper lies under the whole unit, grounded by special cable to the Marants Pre-amplifier. As a result of these precautions total noise in the Humphrey system has been reduced to the point where it is completely inaudible with the volume control wide open...
...just mentioned, Bruce uses a Marants Model 7 stereo pre-amplifier. This unit in his estimation is as close to perfection as is possible, and he has never made any changes in its construction. However, two of the power amplifiers (Bruce uses three separate units, for reasons that were never quite clear to me) are almost entirely his own design. He worked out their circuitry for his company (Bruce is Chief Engineer of Audio Lab, here in Cambridge) when they needed special high power amplifiers with as low distortion as possible for a theater installation...
...last remnants of physical nature. Mary McCarthy was no longer giving a Hum 2 lecture, and the little ladies from the Adult Education League looked a little flustered. Then it came. Physical nature is being eradicated by man, so that only the cell, the final, (once) indestructible unit of life remains...
...other House football teams will play squads from their affiliated colleges. In the first round of games, Harvard's third place House unit--Leverett--will take on Timothy Dwight. Adams Rouse will meet Saybrook, Lowell will play Pierson, and Dudley will play Calhoun...