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...Scholar Siepmann is convinced that radio permits the concentration of power in the hands of a few-power to blast social concepts, to construct or destroy. He is appalled by the fact that of the 500 U.S. universities offering radio courses, only four (Harvard, Princeton, U. of Southern California, Lancaster, Pa.'s Franklin and Marshall College) touch on its social implications...
...says Charles Arthur Siepmann, veteran British educator and BBC director, who last week began a course on radio at Harvard's Graduate School of Education. It will be no ordinary course because Teacher Siepmann has his own ideas. One of six children of a German emigre to England, Siepmann attended Oxford, won the Military Cross in World War I as a British artilleryman in Italy. Pioneer headmaster of one of the Borstal schools for delinquents, where he introduced radio into the curriculum, he joined BBC in 1927, organized radio discussion groups until 1932 when he was made director...
...pessimistic moments, Siepmann is convinced that the misuse of radio contributes mightily to driving the public toward fascism. Two of the most terrifying phrases in all human language, he thinks, are Hitler's avowed objectives, for which radio is a chief tool: "psychological decomposition of the masses" and "mental confusion, contradiction of feeling, indecision, panic [among Nazi enemies...
...course on radio education, considering problems of the use of radio in the classroom as well as the effect of the radio on society, will be presented this year at the Harvard Graduate School of Education by Charles A. Siepmann, University Lecturer at Harvard, formerly Director of Program Planning of the British Broadcasting Corporation. The course, offered primarily for educators, will be conducted Thursday evenings from...
...adopted in the spring of 1939 and almost immediately became the protege of the Faculty. In 1940, it did a series of programs with the Civilization Councillors over short wave station WRUL. Professor Friedrich gives a section on the radio as a social force, in Government 25. Charles Siepmann, noted authority on radio, gave a series of lectures last fall. Norman Corwin and Phil Cohen, the most brilliant men at CBS, have been guest speakers. The Crimson Network runs a full-fledged station, and the Radio Workshop has been organized specifically for the writing of drama for the air waves...