Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 213, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 September 1912 — TO ELECTRIFY A SCHOOLROOM [ARTICLE]

TO ELECTRIFY A SCHOOLROOM

New York Board of Education Will Try Swedish Scheme to Get Extraordinary Results. New York. —The New York board of education is expected to authorize a trial this fall of a Swedish scheme for electrifying a schoolroom and thereby producing extraordinary results from the' pupils. The experiment, which has met with some success in Stockholm, will be tried on a room in which a class of defective pupils is being taught. The cost for a year’s trial will be less than SIO,OOO. The electrificator consists of a series of wires In the walls of the classropm. These wires will be charged with high frequency currents. J The plan will be to have two classrooms; as nearly alike as possible, one elec-' trifled and the other not, each to have the same number of pupils. At the end of a certain period comparisons will be made between the pupils In the electrified room and those In the room not electrified.