ON THE AIR

With word that a series of government lectures by prominent professors will go out on the waves of WAAB next month, the yet unborn Harvard Guardian shows signs of vigorous pre-natal activity. For when Harvard big-wigs step up to the microphone sponsored by an undergraduate organization, the radio has become a real power in the university, not just a subject for turned-up academic noses. The contributions to political thought by such men as Professor Marx and Professor Holcombe may be limited in the fifteen precious minutes alloted them, but their words, compared to the usual radio palaver, should strike the public as gems of purest ray screne.

As a symbol of the growing interest in political sciences, the Guardian, and this its latest venture, fit into the picture that as rapidly taking shape in Cambridge. Along with the continuous increase in the number of concentrators in Government and Economics, an increase brought about by the growing importance of government in the national economy, has come a recognition that public service will absorb a greater percentage of Harvard graduates than ever before. And the Littauer School, another offshot of this movement, will attempt to give these men specialized training before they take up their individual positions on the governmental payroll.

But while the fields of concentration and the Littauer School take care of those professionally interested in government, the Guardian can perform a vital function, both within the college and outside, by catering to amateur interests. If radio talks on administrative reorganization, civil service reform, regulation of industry, and the like can engender a more intelligent attitude towards government in those who do not concentrate in political fields and in the public at large, the experiment of the embryonic publication deserves every aerial success.