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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Oct 13, 1915
Page
3
More than 200 members of the Harvard School of Business undertake a daily climb to the Widener Memorial Library top floor to study. With no elevator service, students must traverse 230 steps per round trip to reach their books and reading rooms.
Harvard business students measure daily workouts by stair climbing in Widener Library. The 115 steps to the business reading room yield about 86 feet of ascent each trip, with three trips daily totaling roughly the height of the Bunker Hill monument, as one student weighs 230 pounds and laments no elevator.
A Reading mail box yielded a strange creature sent by F. Phillips. The Post notes the insect is not a macaroni bug but a phasmid or walking stick, a slender orthopterous insect related to the walking straw of Wales.
The Harvard Royal Rooters plan a mass meeting in the Harvard Union to organize a 1000 student party by boat to New York and train to Princeton for the Harvard Princeton football clash on November 6. William J. Bingham and Lothrop Withington will speak at the meeting.
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