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...Down in North Carolina on the rolling Piedmont soil of Durham Duke University is rising. Here in the Middle West, Antioch College has been reborn upon a plan startingly original and appealing in many ways. The University of Wisconsin gives the opportunity to test out the faith of Professor Meiklejohn in the possibility of cultural education upon a new plan. A further experiment not yet begun is the plan of a college without trustees or president and administered on liberal and democratic terms. Tentative efforts have already been made for its founding. In the West the old Claremont Colleges...
...speech at Anu Arbor reprinted in the CRIMSON, Dr. Meiklejohn offered as the definition of a liberal education the following: one means by a liberal education the process of so informing and training and inciting the mind that it will go forward steadily on the road to understanding of the life to which it belongs; so informing and training and inciting a mind that you can count on it that mind will travel, will go a certain way, will keep on going that way as long as it lives...
...purposes of a liberal education can be formulated Understanding of life necessarily brings with it intellectual fitness for life, which is the ultimate test of the success or failure of an educational system. It is considered doubtful how far the college is at present fulfilling this demand. Dr. Meiklejohn says not at all. That is a dangerous generalization for it infers a uniformity in methods which does not exist. Probably there has never been a time when a greater variety of experiments were being conducted or suggested by serious men. The very existence of such experiments, it is true, indicates...
...Crimson prints below the second half of Dr. Meiklejohn's speech at the N. S. F. A. congress on education. The first division appeared yesterday...
...recommended to study the curriculum, teachers and student government and report at the congress next December. This ensures so far as possible scholarly, effective research. Second, a news service, which has already been initiated, will be developed into an effective center of feature articles by men such as Meiklejohn, of reports on constructive reforms and general problems from various colleges and universities, released from a common center. This in turn brings up the third point, the necessary central and regional structural work around which to build the various activities of the Federation. Such structural work, begun last year, was developed...