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...treatment of the former topic. But the wider realm of government, political science, and international relations has been slighted in the past. World-wide conditions, however, are of constantly more pressing import to the student, and that it will now have a chance to express his views in a medium expressly provided for that purpose is proof that a much-needed opportunity has at last been provided...
Many an educator's imagination has been tickled by the idea that radio would some day become the most powerful medium at his command. A few rash professors predicted that it would supplant lectures and textbooks in the colleges...
...such dreams a group of Harvard psychologists last week had some cold water. Experiments on both students and adults had convinced them of the superiority of the printed page as a medium of education. As between radio and lectures they found that: "Radio has a somewhat dulling effect on the higher mental processes of the listener. He is definitely less critical, less analytical, more passively receptive when listening to the radio than when he is face-to-face with the speaker...
...about the format of the books issued by the firm. Questions as to fonts of type, width of margins, disposition of title-pages, tint and texture of bindings really do interest him. And misprints-especially when he has read the proofs himself-give him neuralgia and even worse afflictions. . . . Medium height, medium looks, medium clothes, somewhat reddish hair, and lively eyes. If I had seen him in a motorbus I should never have said, 'A remarkable chap...
Writers, who feel that they must find a new medium for their ideas, will be offered their chance when Gertrude Stein speaks before the Signet Society on Monday evening at eight o'clock in the Clubhouse on Dunster Street. For her topic, she has chosen. "Grammar and Poetry," or was it "Grammar is Poetry, Poetry, Grammar Grammar...