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...year from this autumn the first fruit of the administration of President Glenn Frank of the University of Wisconsin will burgeon. It is to be an experimental college starting with 125 freshmen-all men-voluntarily enrolled to undertake two years of "project study" under the direction of Professor Alexander Meiklejohn and a special faculty. In 1928 another 125 freshmen will be admitted. At the end of its second experimental year, each class will be returned to the university proper as juniors in full standing, to match their training with that of orthodox third-year students in the College of Letters...
Married. Dr. Alexander Meiklejohn, Professor of Philosophy at the University of Wisconsin; to Miss Helen Everett (Bryn Mawr...
Even student concern with the curriculum, the late development in the student movement, is largely a following of academic leadership. President Aydelotte denounces the classroom, Professor Meiklejohn shouts, "Away with all lectures." President Frank says that the college is sick and proposes an isolation ward where it can be taken apart and examined and experimented on; Secretary Flexner wants to abolish the college altogether at university centres. Profesor Johnston Ross denounces compulsory chapel. Professor William B. Otis denounces compulsory drills. Professor J. E. Kirpatrick would abolish the college Presidency. But it students propose any reforms in these fields, we call...
...past century, Dr. Frank pondered the problem of acquainting freshman and sophomores with the nature of the entire crop before turning them loose to pitch, thrash and store a special portion. He concluded by wondering if there was not great merit in "project" studies as advocated by Dr. Alexander Meiklejohn and others-assigning to underclassmen single historic episodes -perhaps the Greek civilization in the freshman year, and the 19th Century U. S. for sophomores- and helping them to take it to bits, see how, why and whither it worked. Dr. Meiklejohn has proposed the "project" for small colleges. Dr. Frank...
Engaged. Dr. Alexander Meiklejohn, 54, famed (TIME, June 25, 1923, et seq., EDUCATION) on account of so-called radical leanings which resulted in his resignation as President of Amherst College, now Professor of Philosophy at the University of Wisconsin; to Miss Helen Everett, daughter of Professor Walter G. Everett of Brown University, where once Dr. Meiklejohn was Dean...