Word: radio
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Thomas K. Holmquest: Harvard Radio Network, Business Staff, Crime Box, Eliot House Dance Committee, House Christmas Plays, P.B.H. Ticket Agency, Ivy Films, Senior Editor of Yearbook Publications...
...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...
...present time, a radio set is the most intimate means of mass communication. Other countries have used it to considerable advantage in raising the educational level of their population...
...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...
...Harvard College. I should like to assert that I am as great a sports fan as anyone at Harvard. I had spent more time playing sports than I had eating, attending school, seeing movies, shows, etc., reading, riding on bicycles, cars, trains, streetcars, and busses, listening to the radio, or writing until I got polio when I was 14 years old. Nor have I ceased to play sports since I recovered from my attack: only recently I was warned that my basketball playing was liable to injure my health--I took basketball as Freshman physical training while it was available...