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...Dean Hanford says, that no other large university could have made such a success at the present time, because no other has the foundation that has been laid at Harvard by the tutorial system. There are, however, many other plans of similar intent now in operation in various places. Meiklejohn has at Wisconsin a college where there is no classroom teaching, and the emphasis is on joint research. Rollins College has set its students free from all formal routine for an experimental term of six months. Honor students at Swarthmore and elsewhere take no "courses" at all in their last...
...desk from dawn until evensong. But, instead, he was found in his office about half as often as his predecessor. He wandered about the campus, made trips to Manhattan, continued to write for magazines. And the University of Wisconsin got along very nicely; it even progressed; Alexander Meiklejohn was brought out to form an experimental college; there was much talk of the "great work" Glenn Frank was doing...
...class of 1931, Professor Perry outlines an opportunity for serious study of contemporary civilization in the light of a scientific rationality, a method originating with Rousseau and now applied by Dr. Meiklejohn in his experimental college at Wisconsin. And the danger that such broadness should prove superficial or produce a vaguely theoretic sentimentality should be effectively removed by the requirement of a thesis and individual research in a chosen aspect of the work. The Field of Sociology and Social Ethics, thus reorganized and widened, is a welcome and worthy mate of the present fields, and takes its legitimate place...
This idea, carried to its logical conclusion, is the basis of Dr. Meiklejohn's experimental college at the University of Wisconsin. To that institution are admitted a limited number of carefully chosen undergraduates, to study under the guidance of tutors, with few lectures, and fewer examinations. But the curriculum, although there is much opportunity for individual reading, is definitely fixed for all. And in these required courses, the emphasis is not upon facts but upon criticism and comparison. The field of knowledge is regarded in its entirely. Whole civilizations, whole movements of thought, are studied, and the final comparison...
...Doctor Meiklejohn attacks the latter belief, saying that it is unfair to the individual for the college office, having at hand no better facilities for judgment than those which modern education possesses, to determine which students are deserving of the advanced course, the special class, or the work of the honor group. It is one of the goals of the Experimental College to provide the faculties with the touchstones to make this division justly. "No observation," says Doctor Meiklejohn, "of what people are doing under certain conditions can be conclusive as to what they would be capable of under radically...