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Getting the Ear of the State: A Pioneer University Radio Station in the 1920's

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 February 2017

Jerome L. Rodnitzky
Jerome L. Rodnitzky*
Affiliation:
University of Texas at Arlington
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David Kinley, President of the University of Illinois from 1918 to 1930, was by nature, philosophy and inclination a conservative. He viewed the new and untried with marked suspicion, and he was equally distrustful of the gaudy, the common and the exuberant. Thus, his use of the new jazz age medium of radio to publicize his University seems somewhat ironic. In any case, Kinley rose to the height of his academic career in America's gaudiest, most exuberant decade—the Roaring Twenties. It was an age of frenzy and boredom; a period when a restless nation demanded to be entertained.

Type
Notes and Documents II
Information
History of Education Quarterly , Volume 8 , Issue 4 , Winter 1968 , pp. 505 - 509
Copyright
Copyright © 1968 by New York University 

References

Notes

1. Allen, Frederick Lewis, Only Yesterday: An Informal History of the Nineteen-Twenties (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1931), p. 190.Google Scholar

2. The Universities of Wisconsin and Iowa also had pioneer university stations. See Rosentreter, Frederick M., The Boundaries of the Campus, (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1957), pp. 116–19; Wright, Joseph to Kinley, David, April 9, 1924, copy in University of Illinois Archives. Unless otherwise noted, all unpublished sources are in the University of Illinois Archives.Google Scholar

3. Kinley, to Trees, Merle, March 24, 1925.Google Scholar

4. Wright, , copy of a statement before the Federal Radio Commission, November 2, 1928; Wright to Federal Radio Commission, September 5, 1930; Wright, to Salzman, Charles, December 8, 1930; Kinley, , President's Report, 1929–1930, pp. 52–53, 160.Google Scholar

5. Wright, to Kinley, , March 6, 1930.Google Scholar

6. Illinois Alumni News, May 1931, p. 313; Wright, , “Significant Activities of the Radio Station at the University of Illinois,” in McLatchy, Josephine H., Education on the Air: Second Yearbook of the Institute for Education by Radio (Columbus: Ohio University Press, 1931), p. 110.Google Scholar