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Bear in mind, that in the future it will be recognized that we were the first to face and adapt government to the facts of modern life...
...believe that most of the public lectures given in Cambridge and many of the lectures which form parts of formal courses offer orderly discussions of problems of general interest and, without any attempt to adapt them for broadcasting, will appeal to many listeners. Chapel services and musical programs clearly require no adaptation...
...general college tennis and squash lettermen readily adapt themselves to the celloloid spheroid and paddle. An exception to the rule is found in the case of James J. Fuld '37, captain-elect of this year's tennis team. Jim was handicapped at plus 13 at the outset, but, although he has not yet acquired a weekly title, is said, by competent observers, to be rapidly improving...
Convinced that telegrams were adapt able to all social nuances, Mr. Willever first created special holly-leaved blanks for Christmas messages in 1914. He next observed that the mental strain involved in composing social telegrams plunged many a pencil-chewing patron into despondency. So Mr. Willever encouraged managers in branch offices to keep scrapbooks of sentiments they thought were neatly turned. From these collections Mr. Willever culled and issued in 1915 a grey booklet of "suggestions" for Easter, Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Year's, Birthday, Wedding, Birth, Death, Congratulation messages...
...universal protection of candidates, the rebroadcast of a man's remarks days or years later should not be permitted to go out on the ether. Such mechanical repetition deprives him of the opportunity to change his mind or adapt his arguments to the moment, or in any way to clarify his position. The Lincoln-Douglas debates, for instance, could not have taken place had Douglas been a dummy or a red scal record. Furthermore, at a time when many political voices are household property, the unsophisticated listener may have difficulty deciding which is the real speaker and which the ghost...