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...After teaching history and law at Ohio Northern and Chicago Universities, he was president of Antioch College (Yellow Springs, Ohio...
...University of Chicago might be among the first to "demonstrate the courage to calmly abolish the entire system of credit bookkeeping."* If colleges are going to be less mechanical about how they teach, they will need to be more scrupulous about whom they teach. President Arthur E. Morgan of Antioch College (Yellow Springs, Ohio) and President Frank L. McVey of the University of Kentucky both harped on the increasing necessity for stricter, more selective admissions policies. To this phase of the subject the Chicago Tribune made a characteristic contribution: ". . . It may be that the education processes will have to catch...
...routine business," another man might call extraordinary exertion. Long, closely-written technical papers were read on city planning, surveys, irrigation, highways, topography, etc. Among the notables present were Engineers Morris Knowles of Pittsburgh (city planner), President Arthur E. Morgan of Antioch College (flood control specialist), President George S. Davison of "that good" Gulf Refining Co., Pittsburgh; Willard T. Chevalier, manager of the Engineering News-Record (the profession's "Bible"). For President Stevens, aged 74, the trip to Denver had personal aspects. He was paying a visit to his brother E. C. Stevens, headmaster of a Denver school. Also...
...England on the hills of Old Bennington, a woman's college is shortly to be established. At Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania an English honors school is in full operation. Down in North Carolina on the rolling Piedmont soil of Durham Duke University is rising. Here in the Middle West, Antioch College has been reborn upon a plan startingly original and appealing in many ways. The University of Wisconsin gives the opportunity to test out the faith of Professor Meiklejohn in the possibility of cultural education upon a new plan. A further experiment not yet begun is the plan...
...general cultural education. Moreover, one of the best features of education in the United States is the fact that it is not wholly standardized and unified as in most continental European countries. Opportunity is there by given for experimentation. We can have Mr. Morgan conduct his fine experiment at Antioch and Mr. Mickeljohn organize his new plan of college education at Wisconsin...