Word: hear
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...establishment in Leverett House of a "library" of phonograph records is an excellent idea. The only real way to learn music and to appreciate it is to hear it, and there are many students who would like to become more familiar with it. Others get a particular enjoyment out of listening to music. These men might feel that they could afford the time and the money to go to the symphony or to various recitals perhaps once a week. Few could afford to buy a victrola and the expensive records that they want. This innovation will provide some students with...
...hastily to any conclusion, either for or against. Some of us who mocked the first exhibitions of Cubism in America, notably the Amory Show, have learnt to be as unthinkingly broad-minded today as we were at one time prejudiced and skeptical,--so that it is more rare to hear the public express a reasonable doubt when facing new mystifications, than it is to hear such young ladies who say, "I am sure this must be fine. I don't understand it, but it is so modern." To be catholic is admirable. Let us not be over credulous...
...forming a philosophy of his own in this way, than by listening to any one man, no matter how open-minded. But in a small college this plan presents its dangers. There, it is too expedient for an instructor to share the opinion of his superiors; the student will hear only a one-sided philosophy. It would be better that he heard an uninspired man expound all possible beliefs...
PLEASE PULLEASE LET TIME CONTINUE MARCHING ON OVER THE AIR EVEN AT THE EARLY HOUR OF FIVE THIRTY PROGRAM INDISPENSABLE AS ENTERTAINMENT AND FOR ITS UNIQUE DRAMATIC EDUCATIONAL POWER MY BUSY DOWNTOWN OFFICES ARE EQUIPPED WITH RADIO BUT TIME IS ONLY PROGRAM, WE TAKE TIME TO HEAR I HOPE YOU GET MILLION PROTESTS AGAINST DISCONTINUING...
...sponsored program [i. e. advertising] that saved broadcasting from extinction. The goodwill of the public can be gained through broadcasting only by giving the public what it wants to hear."-Merlin Hall Aylesworth, president of National Broadcasting...