The New York herald., 1922-03-26
TO TEACH BY RADIO
IN N. Y, UNIVERSITY
Management Expects to Put
Station on Washington
Square Building.

Plans to extend the scope of New
miles or more around New York by
means OF a radio broadcasting station
have been announced by officers OF the
institution.
OF the program of extension that the
university Is planning. will probably be
erected on top of the building Of the
Washington Square division of the uni
versity at 32 Waverley place. There Is
possibility. however. the university may
decide to use the new broadcasting sta
tion now being installed at the Walker
Lispenard building of the American Tele-
phone and Telegraph Company. At any
rate, classes in Spanish. French, Latin,
economies. law. mathematics and psy-
chology--classes whose members are on
liners and tugboats. on Third avenue or
Fifth, in the tenement or on the farm
will soon be deriving information by ra-
dio. The university believes that II 1t
can get suitable wave length from
Washington the new method OF wireless
education Is entirely practical.
Free Education Through AIR.
mural divisions OF the university. said
yesterday that the university might en-
Geavor to provide financially for the
courses by selling a syllabus to the wire
less students. but that all who would
could get an education free. No definite
method of financing the new system has
been worked out but Il is possible some
one interested In the spread of education
will come forward to assist.
At the present time, Dean Lough said.
the university maintains score OF edu-
cational centers at towns such as Port
Chester. White Plains, Mount Vernon,
Newark. Paterson. East Orange, New
burgh. Bayonne and Allentown. at which
more than three thousand students are
enrolled. 1t is hoped that first by wire,
and eventually by radio. these may be
linked together, so that one professor,
speaking at the university In The Bronx
or in Washington Square. may address
thousands through loud speakers at
these places.
These loud speakers, manufactured by
the Western Electric Company, will be
installed within a short time. Vacuum
bulb ampiiYication Will be used. Tho
system will first be used in the New
York branches.
Many colleges have limited their
freshman enrolment because OF tneir
inability to handle the increasing num-
Der Of students" DR.. Lough said. Re
Gently one of the colleges announced to
It's freshman class. which numbered 500,
that at the mid-year examinations Il
would reduce the class 20 400, since the
college was unable to handle adequately
so large a number.
Plan Forced by Crowding.
New York University did not want
TO take such drastic measures, so we
have adopted this method OF taking care
Of all students. Actual demonstrations
have proved that the voice of the speak
er is transmitted perfectly.
I'VE expect to conduct classes at
Washington Square College and have
the voice transmitted to the Wall Street
Division, University Heights or the
Medical College We will use actual
wires for transmission at present. BY
means of the loud speakers we will have
classes conducted by the head pro-
fessor with instructors In charge OF tho
other classroonAs. These instructors
will act as quiz masters. The advan-
tage of having the very best professor
conduct all The classes himself speaks
for itself
"All this cannot be accomplished In a
day. OF course. but we feel that we can
by radio and by wire gradually extend
our work far beyond its present sphere
of influence"