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Opponents will dismiss the plan as too embryonic, but it is indicative of an attitude toward broadcasts which is shared by most radio listeners. It is only by such projects as this that commercial situations can be forced, by dwindling audiences to effect a much desired change in policy...
...held to their work except through marks. The answer is that students in college who must be kept there by policing had better leave. If a student wants to know how he is getting on, there are plenty of ways of testing him. If the college wants to dismiss a waster, there are plenty of ways of convicting him. Using marks in courses for discipline; promotion, rank lists, prizes, and graduation is simply an administrative convenience which obscures the real business of education--actual individual progress in learning--and centers attention in the wrong place. Harvard Alumni Bulletin...
...fantastic note was introduced into the proceedings when a buxom mysterious lady known as Jeannette M. Lewis suddenly appeared in Montreal and announced that she was prepared to lend Newfoundland $109,000,000, presumably taking Labrador in security (TIME. Aug. 10). Miss Lewis disappeared and newspapers were about to dismiss the entire story when she reappeared in St. John's in September and made the same offer over again...
Last week 8,000 cigarmakers struck in Tampa, Fla. Their "readers" had been dismissed. Plant managers had caught them slipping bits of Communistic literature into their offerings. The workers struck in protest, claimed that only they could dismiss the readers since they paid them. The strike got serious when the workers went back, found the factories locked as the operators had warned they would be. Now deadlocked, the cigar industry is Tampa's biggest. Normal daily output is more than 1,000,000 cigars, the monthly payroll above...
Hanover, N. B., November 8. Not until darkness had shrouded the practice field did Coach Jackson Caunell dismiss his football charges this afternoon. In a long session he drilled the Big Green players in all the tricks of an effective offense, stressing both passes and running plays...