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Seven men gather at a table for a radio broadcast. Karl Taylor Compton sits second from left. Technology Review, Mar 1948, p. 273.

Original Caption: "Radio, as a medium of adult education, earned some very good marks from the presidents and a dean of six of New England's leading colleges and universities in the Boston area on a special broadcast on the evening of February 1, the first anniversary of the Lowell Institute Co-operative Broadcasting Council. Participating in the broadcast were (seated, left to right): Daniel L. Marsh, President of Boston University; Karl T. Compton, President of M.I.T.; Leonard Carmichael, President of Tufts College; Carl S. Ell, '11, President of Northeastern University; and James Bryant Conant, President of Harvard University. (Standing): Ralph Lowell, Trustee of the Lowell Institute; and Reverend Stephen A Mulcalhy, Dean of Boston College, speaking for the Very Reverent William L. Keleher, President of that institution, who was ill. It was the first time that all these noted New England educators were presented together on a radio program."