Word: meiklejohn
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...years in a neo-Tudor-style fraternity house. There Tussman, four professors (one each from law, mathematics, political science and poetry) and five graduate assistants led a complete "intellectual immersion." Based loosely on a great-books-oriented program that Tussman studied under Wisconsin's late Alexander Meiklejohn, the first year concentrated on such Greek writers as Homer, Herodotus and Plato, followed by the Bible, Shakespeare, Machiavelli, Hobbes and Milton. In the second year, students turned to early American thought, the Federalists and John Locke, moved up to contemporary U.S. writers, ended with urban problems. The program carried credits...
Filling out the starting lineup are the boys who have accounted for the other two goals the team has scored--inside Steve Meiklejohn and wing-turned-halfback Tom Ferguson. Ferguson will most likely start at center half today due to injuries to three of the players who usually occupy the middle of the field...
...Beta Kappa Society that year was addressed by the President of Amherst, Alexander Meiklejohn. "I am going to put the liberal arts college on trial," he began, and he proceeded to call up each body of a college. The young students, he said, were innocent; they are guilty of anything you accuse them of, but they are not responsible. The teachers are the ones who are responsible--for what he did not say. "It seems clear, terribly clear to me, that teachers are not commanding and dominating the spirits of their boys because they have no purpose which...
With only four returning lettermen, Amherst coach Ed Serues has been relying on his sophomores to a considerable extent. Apparently the Southern trip strengthened the inexperienced players. Sophomores Dan Warner and Bob Duss have been performing well for Jeffs, along with Captain Peter Alcaly and senior Sandy Meiklejohn...
Died. Alexander Meiklejohn, 92, pioneer of progressive education whose views were honored last year with the award of a Presidential Freedom Medal after early decades of rejection, notably in 1923, when he was forced to resign as Amherst College president for scorning standard disciplines in favor of social science and philosophy, and again in 1934, when his Experimental College at Wisconsin University (no grades or exams) was deemed infeasible and disbanded after seven years; of pneumonia; in Berkeley, Calif...