Word: meiklejohn
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...There is nothing fundamental in American life of today for young Americans to admire," said Director Alexander Meiklejohn of the soon-to-be-suspended experimental college at the University of Wisconsin...
Professor Alexander Meiklejohn of the University of Wisconsin will be the Liberal Club speaker at 8 o'clock in Emerson D. Professor Meiklejohn, who is at present Chairman of the Experimental College at Wisconsin, will speak on "Experimental Education." The lecture will be open to all members of the University...
...graduate of Brown, who received his Ph.D. at Cornell, Meiklejohn returned to Brown to teach in 1897, and became Dean in 1901. For 12 years, from 1912 to 1924, he was President of Amherst College, and since 1926 he has been professor of Philosophy and head of the Experimental College at Wisconsin. Professor Meiklejohn is considered one of the leaders of intellectual life in America, and his position in the University of Wisconsin makes him peculiarly qualified to speak on experimental education...
...school of which Meiklejohn is the head at Wisconsin is an experiment conducted for the first two college years of men who wish to enter the school. For the freshman year, men do nothing but study the ancient Greek civilization and philosophy in all its phases, and in their next year they make a study of modern civilization, with an idea of comparing the two. Junior and Senior years are spent in the college proper. This year the board of trustees of Wisconsin voted to discontinue the school for the present freshman class, and its future is undecided. Professor Meiklejohn...
...obliging bystander might point to the Norrises, La Follettes and Borahs of politics;* the Fosdicks and Wises of the pulpit; to Associate Justices Holmes and Brandeis on the bench; to John Dewey and Alexander Meiklejohn in pedagogy; to Henry Ford and Owen D. Young as businessmen; to the Crusaders as Liberals on Prohibition; to The Nation, New Republic, St. Louis Post Dispatch and Scripps-Howard chainpapers, and to Will Rogers?all of them exponents of one or another kind of U. S. Liberalism. But for an exemplar and spokesman whose Liberalism would be little disputed and least necessary to define...