Professor Maxwell's New Experiment

New York will try an experiment this fall which, if successful, will completely overturn all methods hitherto applied in its schools and introduce a new era in education.

It is so sensational that, at first sight, it seems like the impossible dream of a mad inventor. Yet it has the thorough approval of men who are by no means identified with anything sensational and unpractical, among them Superintendent of Schools William H. Maxwell and Dr. Louis Blau of Columbia university, while the inventor of the scheme, Nikola Tesla, can point for corroboration of what he claims, to the extremely successful results already obtained by means of his invention in the schools of Stockholm, capital of Sweden.

Fifty mentally defective school children will be the first subjects of the experiment. They will enter and seat themselves in what will look, to all intents and purposes, like an ordinary schoolroom. But it will be far from that. Through the walls invisible electrical currents will run, by means of which, it is declared, the brains of the children will receive artificial stimulation to such an extent that they will be transformed from dunces into star pupils.

City Superintendent of Schools William H. Maxwell said, in confirming the report that the experiments are to be made:

“I am convinced that the high-frequency current has no deleterious effect; that, on the contrary, it is positively beneficial, and that the experimental tests should be and in all probability will be carried on in the Fall.”