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...lineups follow: University first team-R. H. Watt '32, L. G. C. Balsan 1G.B., Donald Meiklejohn 1G., J. A. Potter '34, A. W. Sherman '34, Stanton Whitney, Jr. '34, K. F. Armstrong 1G., P. S. deQ. Cabot 1G.Ed., Joseph Oppenheimer '34, John Megaw sL, H. C. Schwyzer '34, R. E. White '34, J. T. Sapienza '34, I. B. Hardy '33, W. S. Burrage...
...failure, but experience is the fruit of the abandoned Experimental College at Wisconsin. In the light of this experience Dr. Meiklejohn now projects a new scheme of education. The new system will have a number of small colleges, entirely separate units, each with its own autonomous faculty. This device is intended to foster an esprit de corps among the students by making them "one in purpose and understanding in the midst of all their differences." The faculty, Dr. Meiklejohn claims, will be improved by being smaller and more coherent, and in closer contact with the students. His experience...
...Whether, they will be housed in dormitories is left to the results of future experiments. But the parallel of the House Plan and the experimental colleges is important because both plans have similar ideals and methods. Under the Harvard plan House autonomy is completely sacrificed to the University; Dr. Meiklejohn's colleges will be absolutely independent...
...outstanding teacher in another college. The destiny of the two systems, the House Plan, and of the experimental colleges of the future, would seem to lead them to a common ground, where the House Plan will have at least the shadow of autonomy, and the splendid isolation of Dr. Meiklejohn's colleges will be modified...
Died. Dr. George Daniel Olds, 77, president emeritus of Amherst College (retired 1927), mathematics professor from 1891 and dean from 1909 until he succeeded Alexander Meiklejohn who resigned as president in 1923; after long illness; in Amherst. Mass...