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This year for the first time all Freshmen will have the opportunity to take a test designed to study their speech and indicate methods of correction and improvement, according to Frederick G. Packard, Jr. '20, associate professor of Public Speaking...
Although he has not completed his study of the tests made at that time, Professor Packard has discovered that, by and large, students leave Harvard with the same speech imperfections that they had when they entered as Freshmen. For this reason an expanded program is being inaugurated this year to study and improve the Yardlings' speech...
Those who wish to take the tests will simply read a few passages and talk for a minute in an impromptu fashion. After recordings have been made of these talks, Professor Packard and his staff will study them and advise the subject on improving his speech...
...newcomers were Packard, Plymouth, Studebaker. All showed the same trend: longer, lower bodies, further streamlining, an impression of massiveness attained by redesigned front ends, cartwheel-sized hubcaps, heavy grilles, thigh-thick bumpers. Amazing was their glitter. The touted shortage of chrome, nickel, other bright metals was not in evidence on the surface. The use of plastics was up, but not much more than in recent years. Some details...
...Packard shocked fellow automakers on two counts: 1) instead of raising prices (as most manufacturers are expected to do), it cut them $50 to $183 a car; 2) it made a clean break with venerable Packard styling, adopted the ultra-windstreaming featured on the "Clipper" put out last April. Packard, though busy on some $250,000,000 of defense orders, assured dealers: "For the next four months there will be no car shortage." All Packards use aluminum pistons but the company is tooled to use cast iron when necessary...