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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Making use of Harvard and local athletes, the Fatigue Laboratory in the basement of Morgan Hall in the Business School works quietly and continually. Clarence De Mar, San Romani, Johnny Kelley, Cunningham, Venzke, even Barry Wood have undergone tests by riding stationary bicycles and performing other fatiguing exercises. In addition, several dogs are employed to measure their amount of heart beats and quantity of lactic acid. The Harvard's Film Service has produced a moving picture for the Laboratory...
...making is a film on the Harvard Forest, which the staff of the Petersham Forestry School will use to supplement its teaching and in lectures to county agents, state foresters, and owners of timber land. Contemplated are a series of short films on Harvard activities outside Cambridge to show alumni the geographical extent of the University...
...production of instructional films; both suffer shoddy competition from certain departments also interested in movie work. Since the Service has no central control, because it lacks official support, these departments are free to purchase movie equipment. Not only are they unable to buy the best, but they make little use of what they get. Most instructors, too, have no knowledge of how to operate such equipment. Eliminating this duplication of effort would mean that the Service could produce a picture free of charge, exclusive of cost of film and of the laboratory work--which is almost negligible...
...City Council that T. P. S. had spent $800,000 improving its property since his original offer, and the city's savings (from lower rates, etc.) would amount to $1,000,000. He will charge regular TVA rates: 75? for 25 kilowatt hours a month for residential use (T. P. S. rates: $1 for 15 kilowatt hours). City poles and wires already strung can be used to replace worn out poles and wires in the T. P. S. system when Mr. Mynatt takes it over...
...matters. As a guest of the annual Episcopal diocesan convention the Mayor, an Episcopalian, renewed his appeal for $1,000,000 for the Cathedral of St. John the Divine (collected to date: $283,000). To Presbyterians celebrating the 200th anniversary of the New York Presbytery he said: "We could use some more of you; we might even be glad to make some exchange of some others, for you carry a weight in the social services of this city out of all proportion to your numbers" (66,500). To Protestant members of the police force, at a communion breakfast. Mayor LaGuardia...