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...years ago at the University of Wisconsin Prof. Alexander Meiklejohn, one-time Amherst President, began an "experimental" college. His freshmen were to study only Periclean culture, his sophomores U. S. history, sociology. From the experimental college they were to enter the University's junior class (TIME, June 18. Sept. 10, 1928). This year the first batch of experiments will be thrown in with the general run of undergraduates. President Glenn Frank, Dr. Meiklejohn's great & good friend, who sponsored the experimental college, will soon have proof of his pet pedagogical pudding...
Educational system has been attacked for the last 20 or 30 years throughout the country, Meiklejohn at Wisconsin, Holt at Rollins, the proposed Harvard plan, these characterize some of the movements under way to change the existing system...
...have since declared them guiltless. California has not reconsidered their case, which is now before Governor C. C. Young for a pardon. To propagandize in their favor a national "Mooney-Billings Committee" has been formed. Among its members are: Harry Elmer Barnes, Clarence Darrow, John Dewey, Glenn Frank, Alexander Meiklejohn, H. L. Mencken, Sinclair Lewis, Rabbi Stephen S. Wise...
Today only one of the Three Young Presidents is continuing his post. He is President Glenn Frank of Wisconsin, one-time editor of the Century magazine and, with Alexander Meiklejohn, founder of Wisconsin's famed Experimental College. Of the others, President Max Mason of the University of Chicago resigned last May* and President Clarence Cook Little of the University of Michigan resigned last week...
...judging committee will consist of the following men: Alexander Meiklejohn of the University of Wisconsin, author of "The Liberal College"; Max McCom of Lehigh University, author of "College of Kindergarten": R. M. Lovett of the University of Chicago and The New Republic...