Word: meikeljohn
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Thrilling for Dr. Alexander Meikeljohn will be the fall of 1929, the winter and spring...
...during that time Sophomores from the Experimental College of the University of Wisconsin will be Juniors in the College of Letters and Science and will compete scholastically with other Juniors who reached their class by more usual courses. The Meikeljohn Juniors will have spent their Freshman year in intense, study of Athenian civilization, their Sophomore year in study of U. S. civilization. They will be the first class to have left the Experimental College...
...article in the September Century, Dr. Alexander Meikeljohn, no longer of Amherst, conducts a Socratic discussion with himself on the question of the responsibility of the President and faculty of a college. It develops that the President and faculty are not responsible to the students, the parents of students, the public, the benefactors, the alumni, the Church, the trustees, the State. They cannot be responsible to themselves. To whom, then, are they responsible? " There are, I think, two relationships in which the scholar feels and acknowledges responsibility. The first and lesser of these is the relation to other teachers...
Those who were chiefly responsible for Dr. Meikeljohn's removal spoke semi-officially as follows: " Professors Fitch, Hamilton and Stewart and Associate professors Gaus, Agard and Hinners have resigned from the Amherst faculty, alleging in substance that freedom of study and discussion will no longer be possible at Amherst. What the grounds for the belief of this statement are have not yet been submitted. Meanwhile friends of education and of Amherst may well await the appointments to the Faculty to be made by President-elect Olds before determining the question whether or not the Amherst of the future...