Word: meikiejohn
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have addressed the club this year are Roger Baldwin, New York lawyer, Harry Elmer Barnes, modern educator and liberalist, and Clarence Darrow, famous Chicago criminal lawyer. In addition the Liberal Club officers succeeded in bringing to Harvard Dr. Stephen H. Duggan, college professor and diplomatic authority, and Alexander Meikiejohn, educator and present leader of the Experimental College at the University of Wisconsin...
Simultaneously comes the announcement from President Glenn Frank of Wisconsin that the program worked out for the past three years in the Experimental College by Alexander Meikiejohn has "proved itself with amaxing success." He proposes that it be applied to the entire student body. This would mean that students would devote only 60 per cent of their time to a diversified course, and the remaining 40 per cent to concentrated study of a specific broad topic, such as Athenian civilization. Class attendance would be optional; there would be no quizzing and no examination. "Intellectual awakening" would be the sole objective...
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