Word: beliefs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...offering the Vagabond to its readers the CRIMSON has been entirely without any definite statistics as to the popular approval of the plan. Certain things--the Vagabond among them--must be thrust upon the public in the belief that the contribution is welcome or at least not unworthy of consumption. Therefore it is gratifying to learn the attitude of other colleges and universities, since thus is the Vagabond furnished with the sole concrete justification of his existence. If others offer him commendations he is partially assured that as a prophet he is not entirely without honor in his own country...
...Alexander Meiklejohn, former President of Amherst College, and now president of the Experimental College of Wisconsin University, is the author of a pamphlet recently issued by that university, containing several significant ideas on the trend of democracy in modern education. It is Dr. Meiklejohn's belief that the big issue which remains particularly untouched by those colleges not experimenting on hold lines, is that of the war going on within the college between what he calls the democracy and the aristocracy. His two factions are not divided into groups of social standing, but rather of intellectual status. A constant pitched...
Doctor Meiklejohn attacks the latter belief, saying that it is unfair to the individual for the college office, having at hand no better facilities for judgment than those which modern education possesses, to determine which students are deserving of the advanced course, the special class, or the work of the honor group. It is one of the goals of the Experimental College to provide the faculties with the touchstones to make this division justly. "No observation," says Doctor Meiklejohn, "of what people are doing under certain conditions can be conclusive as to what they would be capable of under radically...
...scholarship and attractive personality, these young people should be turned away from the teaching profession." Every teacher, man or woman, must come to regard teaching as a permanent occupation, not a makeshift until he or she studies law or goes into business or accumulates a trousseau, is his belief...
...Davin, Yale '26: "The only thing that is wrong if a belief that nothing is wrong...