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...Lucien Koch, 24, who had been brought up on an Oregon farm, worked his way through high school as a printer's devil, studied at Commonwealth from 1924 to 1929. Director Koch studied economics at the University of Wisconsin, became an instructor in Dr. Alexander Meiklejohn's Experimental College. Blond, square-faced, heavyset, he is foreman of the college carpentry crew. He likes to shout labor speeches, sing labor songs, play Beethoven on Commonwealth's portable phonograph. Last spring Director Koch took four commoners to Kentucky's Harlan and Bell Counties to distribute food & clothing, make speeches on the Bill...
...modern Athens is Madison, Wis.; nor is the University of Wisconsin's Dr. Alexander Meiklejohn a Socratic humbler for whom the hemlock cup awaits. But Wisconsin may look at Greece. To do so it opened in 1927 an Experimental College, whose 100-odd students wore Athenian owls on their blazers, gathered in earnest groups to study, first, the Greece of Pericles' Age, then America of the last century. Viewing the two whole, the students might learn to think and live wisely against their contemporary background. So thought Dr. Meiklejohn. To his insurgent College came farm-boys (of native and foreign...
...question, "Is the Experimental College a success?" Dr. Meiklejohn attempts no flat answer. In general, parents said yes. But Experimenter Meiklejohn and his Advisers, viewing it as an educational method, find the problem more difficult, content themselves with making observations, presenting recommendations to the University whose President Glenn Frank helped plan the College. Some observations...
...Meiklejohn and his Advisers made these recommendations: In 1933-34 let there be set up four experimental units for freshman and sophomore years; one for men with dormitory, one without, one for women with dormitory, one coeducational, without dormitory. The teachers of these units should pursue independent investigations but cooperate with one another. For problems of instruction in junior and senior years there should be a corresponding experimental unit...
...Gutherie, Madison, Wis.; Leo A. T. Haak, Cambridge, Mass.; J. W. Havighurst, Jacksonville, Ill.; R. D. Humphrey, St. John, N. B., Canada; J. E. Johnson, Whitford, Pa.; K. B. Krishna Madras, India; C. G. Lalicker, Norman, Okla.; H. H. Lane, Barre, Vermont; Bernard Lemann, New Orleans, La.; D. W. Meiklejohn, Madison, Wis.; Brooks Otis Richmond, Indiana; D. H. Popper, White Plains, N. Y.; H. A. Smith, North Adams, Mass.; C. W. Swonger, Durham, N. H.; F. B. Williams, Jr., Middletown N. Y.; Jacob Canter, Newton, Mass.; V. I. Cheadle, Oxford, Ohio; R. A. Clapp Oberlin, Ohio; J. S. Edwards, Chapel...