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...smoke. Under the regime of Conservative Governor Fred R. Zimmerman, Dr. Frank vexed Wisconsin Liberals by refusing to permit Dora (Mrs. Bertrand) Russell to lecture on Companionate Marriage. Also against strong Liberal sentiment, he got a $350,-ooo gift from the Rockefeller Foundation. The Experimental College which Dr. Alexander Meiklejohn was imported to develop has been flayed for lack of discipline. And there are other minor issues. But, chiefly, personalities are involved. Many a La Follettite views with suspicion the big industrialists whom Dr. Frank numbers among his friends...
...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...