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...first morning in Athens, Mr. Insull sat on a balcony sipping a cup of strong Turkish coffee. He may have noticed a number of cars around his hotel, the drivers all eying him. Finally an Athenian policeman emerged from one car and approached Mr. Insull, informed him he was under arrest. The American Legation had asked Athenian police to detain him in order to give the U. S. State Department time to decide whether or not to ask Greece, with which no extradition treaty has been completely established, to send Mr. Insull back to face U. S. justice...
California is a country which resembles Greece in its brilliant skies, its hot bright landscape with blue waves curling at the edges. Its inhabitants have a Spartan pride in physical perfection, an Athenian confidence in their own Golden Age. The steady splendor of the ceremony that opened California's first Olympic Games last week was the expression of a feeling which oldtime Greeks would have understood. It ended in the quiet ritual of the Olympic oath, to "take part in the Olympic Games in loyal competition, respecting the regulations which govern them and desirous of participating in them...
...Areopagus: the hill on which in early Athenian times sat a council with supreme executive and judicial power...
...modern Athens is Madison, Wis.; nor is the University of Wisconsin's Dr. Alexander Meiklejohn a Socratic humbler for whom the hemlock cup awaits. But Wisconsin may look at Greece. To do so it opened in 1927 an Experimental College, whose 100-odd students wore Athenian owls on their blazers, gathered in earnest groups to study, first, the Greece of Pericles' Age, then America of the last century. Viewing the two whole, the students might learn to think and live wisely against their contemporary background. So thought Dr. Meiklejohn. To his insurgent College came farm-boys (of native and foreign...
Appointed to consider the Experimental College report, a committee from the Col lege of Arts & Sciences last April rejected its recommendations as too bulky, and not solving all difficulties. Still to be considered by Wisconsin is an alternative plan. If the Athenian owl is once more to figure at Madison, it may be somewhat as fol lows: When the financial situation justifies, let there be established a nonresidential, co-educational unit, with one or two hundred freshmen. During two years they will take one partially integrated course in civilizations or societies, taking also "Hill" courses in a ratio...