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I am not accustomed to doubting TIME—it has for me an absolute value in spite of Einstein. But one of your news items caused me to raise my eyebrows, open my mouth and give forth a faint screech. The item reads: "As Heidelberg is occupied by French troops, the funeral procession was deprived of any military pomp" (TIME, Mar. 16, Page 11). Heidelberg is my Alma Mater. I studied there from 1918 to 1921. To my knowledge, no French troops ever were stationed there; the nearest they came was Ludwigshafen on the left side of the Rhine.
Will you oblige a puzzled subscriber by investigating the case?
R. J. HAFRICMER.
Heidelberg was first occupied by French troops in March,. 1923.—ED.
"Biggest Colleges"
TIME, New York, N. Y.
Lynchburg, Va. Mar. 5, 1925
Gentlemen:
In your issue of Feb. 16, on Page 17, under "Education," you give the five largest colleges exclusively for women. The last one on the list is Mt. Holyoke with 722 students. Randolph-Macon Woman's College in Lynchburg, Va., is exclusively for women and its enrollment for 1923-24 was 772 and for 1924-25 is 816. A restatement of the facts would be appreciated.
WM. BLACK.
TIME had quoted from an article in School and Society by Dean Raymond Walters of Swarthmore College. In response to a letter from TIME, Dean Walters wrote : "The authority for my classification of Smith, Wellesley, Vassar, Goucher and Mount Holyoke as the five largest exclusively women's colleges is in the reports I have from about 160 colleges and universities on the approved list of the Association of American Universities. . . . I have signed reports from registrars of all these universities to back the figures given. Please note that they are all of the date Nov. 1, as have.been all the figures given in these series for many years."—ED.
"Truth in Advertising"
TIME, New York. N. Y.
Church Mission to the Deaf, St. Louis, Mo. Mar. 9, 1925
Gentlemen:
Renewal memoranda enclosed. Was about to write you in any case. Herewith is an advertisement (by the Dictograph Products Corporation) clipped from TIME, issue of Feb. 23. I believe you believe in truth in advertising. Could anything be more contrary to actual facts than the import of the following quotations taken from the advertisement:
"When deafness comes beauty goes."
". . . which immediately restores good hearing, even to the poorest ears."
The advertisement is cleverly worded but it claims too much. My acquaintance with people having "the poorest of ears" runs into the thousands, not one of whom has been helped by the "aid" advertised. Some 1,500 children with hearing more or less defective attend the schools for the deaf in various parts of the country—several being located in and near New York. There are 50,000 graduates and former pupils of these schools living in this country who would know of the aid if it was worth what is claimed for it. The vendors of the "aid" could go to the schools, the churches, the clubs and the associations for the deaf and show the deaf that its claims are true. But they won't. Why not advertise the actual facts and let it go at that?
J. H. CLOUD.
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