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Show 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 re suits from the pupils. The experiment, experi-ment, which has met 'with some success suc-cess 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 $10,000. The electriflcator consists of a series se-ries of wires in the walls of the classroom. class-room. These wires will be charged with high frequency currents. .. The plan will be to have two classrooms, as nearly alike as possible, one electrified elec-trified 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. |