Word: programs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Speaking on the Lowell Institute's "America at the Crossroad" program over WEEI last night, Professor John K. Fairbank '29, Associate Professor Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. '38, and Benjamin I. Schwartz 4G, graduate student fellow at the Russian Research Center, agreed that U.S. recognition of the Chinese Red will play a small part in the future of Asia...
...approach. He made out the course catalogue each year, almost as a hobby, for he enjoyed wrestling with its major difficulty: to schedule at different hours the courses which are most likely to interest any particular student, while at the same time not giving any teacher too rough a program...
...recent expansion of the Lowell Institute's adult education program is worth attention and support from radio listeners. The Institute, which is rebroadcasting college lectures by such men as Seymour Harris, points more directly than ever to the tremendous potentialities of radio as a constructive force for education...
Before the war Austria provided a remarkably varied program of educational programs, often of an advanced and technical nature. The British Broadcasting Company has programs directed to school classes, with teachers on the spot amplifying the instruction. In Poland, scattered professional men--such as country doctors--were kept in touch with the latest techniques and progress in their fields. In Holland, radio is now used for giving primary education to children of bargemen, who cannot attend a regular school...
...great distinction between the majority of these countries and the United States, of course, is that their radio stations are subject to direct government control. This means program planners can give listeners what they ought to have rather than what they want, without fear of detrimental consequences. In this country, few sponsors have the courage to sponsor a direct form of education because they know their chances of holding listeners are better if they give away ice-boxes or tell how a woman can enjoy life beyond...