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Wisconsin is at the moment planning a reorganization of its curricular and advisory systems. Dr. Meiklejohn will take his chair next month. He is sure to be asked to insert his liberal finger into the pedagogical pie, at least to the extent of describing changes he recommended and sought to introduce at Amherst, changes which were thought too revolutionary by the Amherst trustees and which necessitated his resignation as Amherst president in 1923. His incumbency at Wisconsin again postpones the advent of the "ideal college" which Dr. Meiklejohn hopes some day to found (TIME...
...Yale Alumni Weekly in its current issue takes advantage of the celebration of the Lampoon's fiftieth anniversary to insert the following laudatory words...
...this point we had intended originally to insert a few paragraphs from a recent work of ours on "The Cattle Industry in Relation to Westward Migration 1650-1673". But perhaps it would be just as well to stop right here. . . . Oh yes, just a word about "The Red Kimono". It is a sermon by Mrs. Wallace Reid on the life of the streetwalker and its attendant evils. Being a bit irrelevant as far as we were concerned, it didn't get a very vital grip on our interest, except as it distressed whatever feelings we have...
...deference to its Latin American friends (who dislike seeing the term "American" appropriated by the United States), TIME employs a "checker" whose special function it is to cross out "American" wherever it is improperly used and to insert "U.S." In editing "early American furnishings" into "early U. S. furnishings," this person permitted his zeal to overbalance his good sense...
...many years ago, thinks Lampy, there would have been a small committee to insert the too-terpsichorean freshman gently in his hansom cab, and start him firmly on the long, slow drive to Cambridge. The old order changeth, but Lampy wishes merely to caution, and advise moderation to the many popular stalwarts by the Charles...