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Identifier: belltelephonemag4344amerrich (find matches)
Title: Bell telephone magazine
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: American Telephone and Telegraph Company American Telephone and Telegraph Company. Information Dept
Subjects: Telephone
Publisher: (New York, American Telephone and Telegraph Co., etc.)
Contributing Library: Prelinger Library
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ker—to hisaudience via regular telephone lines. Hisvoice is amplified through loudspeakers,and people in the audience can talkdirectly with him in the give-and-take of question and answer. In the last yearalone, some 250 universities have pro-gramed Tele-Lecture service to bringteachers, scholars, writers, artists andmany others to classes that might other-wise never have the chance to hear suchspeakers in person. ■ For example, Professor HadleyCantril, of Princetons Institute ofSocial Research, spoke recently to anaudience of 500 people from the Univer-sity of Vermont. About three-quarters ofthe listeners—teachers and students—were distributed among three of itsbranches, Castleton, Lyndon and John-son (sic) State Teachers Colleges. TheUniversity of Vermont, intrigued by thispossibility of extending the range of notedlecturers to a greater number of facultyand students throughout the state, de-cided to test the Tele-Lecture service ona larger scale. The University now plans 40
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to offer some 20 off-campus courses in avariety of subjects to be held weekly insecondary schools throughout Vermont.University staff members feel that per-haps 75 per cent of their courses couldbe taught via Tele-Lecture. At Ricker College in Maine, six na-tional political figures participate byTele-Lecture in an American Govern-ment class. At the University of Texasa course in mathematics is taught by thistechnique to six communities in variousparts of the state. At the University ofWashington, prominent international fig-ures such as the Governor of Puerto Ricoand government officials from Hollandhave addressed world affairs students. Atthe University of Cincinnati, Tele-Lec-ture talks are programed as part ofundergraduate enrichment in history. AtOhio State, the College of VeterinaryMedicine has Tele-Lecture service as apermanent installation. The Universityof Wisconsin uses Tele-Lecture serviceas part of multi-media experiments in communication, which are being tmder-written by t

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