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...expedition's radio equipment had kept the world pretty fully informed of what befell during the past four months, but MacMillan and his lieutenants did a lot of summing...
...unit that was assigned to accompany MacMillan and that flew three Leoning Amphibian planes a total of 5,300 miles over perilous ice-lands: "I think that again the great National Geographic Society has fathered an expedition that has contributed scientific knowledge to the world." He particularized: experience with radio and solar compasses, data on flying conditions in frigid air and over snow-covered terrain. He warmly complimented the men under him on their courage and discipline, citing Mechanic Bennett's heroism in climbing out on a wing to prevent a cold-clogged oil tank from bursting, the joint...
...student the habit of reading good books. This is a declining practice these days; the public rears newspapers or magazines or the novels of the day, but more often it does not read at all; it looks at motion pictures, or it listens to the gramophone or the radio, or it occupies its leisure with action, such as driving or camping or dancing. If the college could enter a wedge into the customs of the country by instilling at least in the student the habit of reading good books, it would confer on society a benefit of very great value...
...people are so pathetically ignorant as your well-informed man. The radio has bred this form of mental contagion to an alarming extent in the rural districts. Tom, Tom, the farmer's son, instead, of leading books on fertilizers, on grafting, on pheasant raising, as more sensible fellows may be doing, spends his evenings listening to talk about the condition of the soap and toothpaste industry, about stocks and bonds, about Florentine painting, about Peter Rabbit. To combat this absurdity the universities of Iowa, of Pittsburgh, and the Kansas State Agricultural College have seen fit to sow the wind...
...Iowa Professors broadcast from WSUI. An enrollment fee of $2 is charged, $4 thereafter per semester hour of final credit granted. Thus a radio student can take, for $60 or so, a course that would cost a college attendant from $200 to $600. Last spring one Clifford Liddeen, in absentia in Texas, received his degree. This fall the University offers courses in: Early Iowa History, American Literature, Iowa Flora, English, and Elementary Psychology...