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...would have been uncharacteristic of Lowell to stop while things were going his way, and indeed, he did not. In his annual report for 1908-09 Lowell wrote, "It may be hoped that under the new rules for the choice of electives, some form of general examinations... on the principal field of study will be more commonly required." For the new president, the suggestion was a cautiously worded one, but it was only the beginning. Lowell fully believed that students forgot most of what they had learned in a course as soon as the final examination was out of sight...
...business, and all of it has been fully reported by the nation's daily and periodical press. Last week, at a luncheon for the Magazine Publishers Association in Manhattan's Hotel Pierre, Leo Burnett, 68, bustling Chicago advertising-agency head (Leo Burnett Co., Inc., $102 million in annual billings), stepped up and threw some rocks in another direction: right at his listeners...
This ingenious approach was first tried five years ago in New York by a onetime publicity man named Herbert Muschel. With less than $10,000 in capital, Muschel launched PR News Association in Manhattan, a publicity wholesaler that took copy from commerce and industry and moved it-for an annual membership fee of $25, plus a daily charge of $15 for transmissions-over printers installed free in newspaper offices, broadcasting stations and other communications outlets that permitted the installation. Today Muschel has more than 700 paying customers-among them General Foods Corp., Kaiser Industries Corp. and the American Heart Association...
When the American Medical Association met in Dallas last week for its annual winter clinical sessions, the sun shone brilliantly if coolly over what Texans call the "Land of the Big Sky." But big sky and bright sun are far from being an unmixed blessing, warned Houston's Dr. John M. Knox, a dermatology professor at Baylor University College of Medicine. Along with other skin specialists in the Southwest, he is seeing more and more harmful effects from exposure to the sun, now that leisure time is increasing and proportionately more of it is spent in "healthy" outdoor activity...
Before the 48th annual convention of the Investment Bankers Association of America last week in Bal Harbour, Fla., outgoing President William D. Kerr posed a challenge: "I visualize a titanic struggle between the forces that would foster and perpetuate our local governments and our right to the well-known freedoms and those who would turn these United States into a huge federal omnibus in which the individual would be reduced to being a number in a file...