Letters: Aug. 22, 1927

At Rochester

Sirs:

... I might mention some incidents which have made me realize the wide spread influence of TIME among cultured people. I have attempted no less than three different times, in three separate classes, to arouse respect for my wide knowledge of current events by plagiarizing incidents re lated in TIME, and each time the professor has smilingly and somewhat devastatingly retorted, "Yes, I read about that in TIME." So you see the plight a poor collegian is in when he tries to put your magazine to such practical uses. . ....

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