AN ACADEMIC DREAM

A new and altogether practical use has been found for the radio. Science has discovered, according to a report, that the best way to learn facts is to listen to a statement of them while one is asleep. It is given as proof that a Terre Haute mechanic with only the most rudimentary education has, by clamping radio phones to his ears, learned the binomial theorem, select passages from American history, some irregular French verbs, and yards upon yards of poetry all while he was fast asleep.

This device is to Europe that its applications in an academic way are not difficult to foresee. The night before examinations some assistant in a course need only conduct an exhaustive review. Nobody will go to it, of course, for it will be broadcasted. Students stay at home and retire early, headphones in place. Next morning they awake refreshed and go forth to examinations with every fact stowed away in the brain. Then there will be an end of college failures, for every one knows, theory to the contrary notwithstanding, that examinations test only facts. Parents will he delighted. Students will need to study only twice a year, and them in one's sleep. And withal, the Dean's list will read like the Register.