Word: meiklejohn
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...drag of the incapable; to encourage and reward intellectual initiative. And everywhere the liberalizing process has included these steps: removal of compulsion to study; replacement of frequent, specific examinations with in frequent, comprehensive ones. Harvard, Princeton, Dartmouth long since took modifications of these steps. In Dr. Alex ander Meiklejohn's experimental college at the University of Wisconsin, the radical plan of studying human eras whole instead of human knowledge piecemeal has been tried with success. The University of Chicago approached its reformation guided by two factors not so pressing at other universities: a large and intricate budget ; a monster...
...program includes Paul Anderson, Roger Baldwin, Harry E. Barnes, Claude G. Bowers, Clarence Darrow, Dr. Stephen P. Duggan, Arthur G. Hays, Gardener Jackson, Dr. Clarence Cook Little '10, Robert M. Lovett, Alexander Meiklejohn, Lowis Mumford, Scott Nearing, and W. A. Neilson...
Long has Alexander Meiklejohn fought ritualized education; championed intellectual freedom. When forced to resign the presidency of Amherst in 1923, loud were student protests; thirteen refused degrees...
Last week Wisconsin's dynamic President Glenn Frank announced that the experimental college would be abandoned in June. Reason: internal friction. Gratifying to Dr. Meiklejohn was the announcement that some of the experiment's principles would be applied to freshmen and sophomores in the whole university...
...male Cassandra does not say that man "must study so that be can improve living." He would be more likely to assume that there was no use in studying, because living could not be improved. Yet that is what Dr. Meiklejohn said, and that is what you called...