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Will radio eventually supplant newspapers as the prime means of disseminating news? Journalists, disquieted over the question since the perfection of broadcasting, not only had a Cause last week; they had an Issue. President Karl August Bickel of the United Press was distressed that Secretary of State Henry Lewis Stimson and other U. S. delegates at the London Naval Conference had consistently refused to give personal interviews but had frequently spoken their personal views over the radio. After Secretary Stimson himself spoke over the radio last fortnight, Mr. Bickel cabled...
...with individual mental capacities than is possible under present conditions. A difficulty present itself, however, in finding a more accurate gauge of qualities, as intangible as a student's "mental capacity", and "reaction to the university's opportunities" than exists under the credit system which President Hutchins wishes to supplant. Such a gauge is necessarily the foundation on which the new system must rest, and unless President Hutchins, in discarding the credit system in the early undergraduate years, has something more effective to offer as its substitute than the only apparent alternative, "intelligence tests" of some sort, he is working...
When President James Rowland Angell addresses visitors on Alumni Day (Feb. 22), Yalemen will know the exact extent to which the House Plan may supplant the sacred rites and traditions of Old Yale...
...TIME, Dec. 16). In January the agreement had become a disagreement, with Mr. Fox refusing to hand over immediate control to his fellow trustees (TIME, Jan. 13). Last week's formation of Fox Securities Corp. was universally considered as an attempt to shake off the banking hold, to supplant the voting trust, to leave Mr. Fox refinanced and free. Though $35,000,000 represented only a portion of the Fox indebtedness, Fox-friendly Banker Brown felt confident that the raising of this sum would restore confidence in the Fox financial structure, persuade other Fox creditors to wait patiently...
...policy of studying only those subjects which fit the undergraduate for his career losses sight of an important reason for a university education. If college were merely an apprenticeship for business it is just as well to supplant them with up to date high-geared schools of specialization turning out standardized products. The College does, or should, put into the world men with a well-rounded knowledge of one subject and broadened by a liberal acquaintance with others. The ultimate value of their education is as much an ability to view their profession in correct relation to their lives...