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When a Sophomore addressed a group of Rotarians in Stoneham yesterday afternoon, he unwittingly inaugurated a new program of cooperation between the University and its immediate territorial neighbors. This was the first of a series of speeches to be made by members of Harvard's public-speaking classes to various high school, church, and teachers groups in behalf of the current Community Fund drive...
...three years the Committee on University Broadcasting has been arranging programs for Station WIXAL and the latest product of the Committee's high-brow ingenuity is "the Harvard University Series." Although designed to be of general educational interest, the program calls for professors from each of the graduate schools to discuss their work. And more and more these Harvard-trained Harvard professors have tended to stray from the main and to describe in detail how we do things here at Harvard. Despite its worthy goal, the Series is rapidly entering the twilight of advertising and is setting a dangerous precedent...
Last week the President again declared that only an Einstein could yet figure anything definite from his Rearmament plans but at a White House press conference he gave out a mimeographed announcement by the new Civil Aeronautics Authority: "President Roosevelt today approved a program presented [by CAA] for the annual training of approximately 20,000 pilots in the colleges and universities of the U. S., and authorized the allocation of $100,000 in National Youth Administration funds for the initial phase...
...initial phase will provide primary training by commercial instructors in rented planes for 300 physically fit college students. If the experiment works well, and Congress appropriates some $9,800,000 a year to enlarge and continue the program, 20,000 new fledgling pilots (less casualties) may be turned out each year. Secondary objective, stressed more by the President than by CAA, is that the plan will create a reserve of fledglings who after 50 hours in the air will not be so green as the youngsters who enroll annually for Army training at Randolph Field...
...mechanics in abandoned arsenals, aircraft shops, and school rooms. This is in line with a series of moves to build up personnel reserves and stimulate the aircraft industry, which would be needed in case of war. Said CAA's chairman, Businessman Edward J. Noble, of the student-pilot program: "... A sound measure of national defense . . . sound business for the air industry...