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...Boston University's 400 theological students. In them he instills his own technique. He broadcasts with his coat off and observes "Ten Radio Commandments": 1) Speak in a conversational tone; 2) Take your sermons not from the Bible, but from life; 3) Leave out the word "I"; 4) Neglect the needless; 5) No bunk; 6) No sob stuff; 7) Make the web of your sermon optimistic, cheerful; 8) Check and recheck your script before delivering . . . for absolute factual accuracy; 9) Keep the word "not" out of your sermon script; 10) Use no introduction. Plunge right into the middle...
...University has pursued a policy of not so salutary neglect toward cager fledglings who troop into the Union with the hope of continuing careers started in high school debating. The enthusiasm of well attended meetings of the Union Debating Society dissipates before the University's stony refusal either to appropriate money for an adequate coaching staff for upperclassmen, or to assign Public Speaking instructors to a task essentially within their province. Thus the traditional coma of Harvard debating is due not to lack of undergraduate interest, but to official indifference...
...content with "sticking its neck out" with untrue statements, the article went on to say in petulant fashion that the University should not have paid $50,000 for two bronze rhinoceroses when the Widener Library was suffering from neglect. This puerile statement has no bearing on the case, as the money for the two mammoth creatures came from a special fund, and could not have been expended in any other fashion...
While Harvard's neglect of the Music Department has affected students in every class, the failure of the authorities to provide adequately for music falls heaviest on graduates who suffer not only from over worked professors and an inaccessible library, but from the University's policy of restricting graduate work. In the last few years Professors Davison and Merritt, Dr. Leicbtentritt, and others have attracted an increasing number of music concentrators and graduates into the Department whose teaching force the authorities refused to expand. Last year, when the over-burdened teaching staff was faced with turning away graduates and concentrators...
...Fellowships from this fund, each carrying a large stipend, are available this year, and December 15 is the closing date for applications. An unmarried undergraduate desirous of sugaring a sound American education with the cultured icing of a year in England cannot afford to let slide this opportunity through neglect or indifference...