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...Alexander Meiklejohn, former President of Amherst College, and now president of the Experimental College of Wisconsin University, is the author of a pamphlet recently issued by that university, containing several significant ideas on the trend of democracy in modern education. It is Dr. Meiklejohn's belief that the big issue which remains particularly untouched by those colleges not experimenting on hold lines, is that of the war going on within the college between what he calls the democracy and the aristocracy. His two factions are not divided into groups of social standing, but rather of intellectual status. A constant pitched...
...University of Southern California, Freshmen coeds, were set to scrubbing sidewalks, in accordance with tradition. ¶ At the University of Wisconsin, famed for its journalistic educator President Glenn Frank, for its great economist Prof. Robert Commons (who dares chew tobacco in the President's office), Dr. Alexander Meiklejohn* started his Experimental College. At this unit of the University, students will study exclusively a single civilization, the Ancient Greek. In so doing, they are not called upon to master the Greek language. ¶At Millsaps College, Jackson, Miss., 40 Freshmen voluntarily shaved their own heads in a "Free Will Hair...
...days decrease before the opening next month of the "Experimental College" at the University of Wisconsin, with Dr. Alexander Meiklejohn* as chief experimenter, President Glenn Frank of the University continues to send out bulletins...
...Alexander Meiklejohn lost the (eighth) Presidency of Amherst for subjecting its traditions to radical educational experiments not dissimilar to those proposed for Wisconsin...
...professor of Latin. President Pease is not an Amherst man. He received his bachelor's, master's and doctor's degrees at Harvard. He taught at Harvard, Radcliffe and the University of Illinois before coming to Amherst. He is less of a liberal than Dr. Alexander Meiklejohn, Amherst's eighth president; he is less of an administrator than Dr. George D. Olds, Amherst's ninth president. But, as a distinguished scholar, he fulfills the presidential needs of a small New England college...