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...Meiklejohn divides his platform into ten units, the first of which concerns the size of his projected college. And here in the particular is the first parallel with the plan of the Student Council's committee. For he wants his college to be and to remain no larger than two hundred and fifty in enrollment, a desire, which, as is now rather well known, those who drafted the Harvard report possess. Furthermore, he suggests that the college must be near a large city or university whose laboratories and libraries it can use. The idea of dividing Harvard into small colleges...
...person has been so outstanding a proponent of the novel and the apparently unusual in American education as has the present incumbent of the Brittingham Chair of Philosophy at the University of Wisconsin, Alexander Meiklejohn. His desire for the creation of a "new college" has long been known, if not completely understood. So with the publishing in the current "New Republic" of the formulated idea of the "new college" one can determine more precisely just whether or not he believes Dr. Meiklejohn's plan either sound or necessary...
...regards the question of a faculty Dr. Meiklejohn faces the task of procuring (he wants a faculty of twenty-five) capable and interesting men who are willing to risk security in their present field for the freedom of work in this new one. Such men--and he is certain that he can find them--would necessarily suffer one inhibition, the lack of tradition. And it is tradition which is really the great obstacle in the way of any such plan as this One can build a factory or a fancy on ideas, but a college builds as much on tradition...
...evident that for once the conservative and conventional people interested in education at Harvard have little to chagrin them in the more sensational sentiments of their supposedly more radical and more progressive contemporaries. The plan which Dr. Meiklejohn suggests is, in a sense, a part of the proposed, and in some respects, of the already functioning Harvard system That Harvard is content to allow lectures to continue while she undertakes the tutorial policy is characteristic, and in that sense, good. Not possessed of any sanguine faith in the impossible, but ready to conform to the needs of the passing years...
...Smith and Ferdinand C. Schiller of Oxford; John Burnet of St. Andrews. From the various philosophical departments of U. S. universities and colleges: Professor Guy A. Tawney of Cincinnati, President of the western branch of the American Philosophical Society; President John G. Hibben of Princeton; Professors Alexander Meiklejohn of Wisconsin, Edward S. Ames of Chicago, Ernest Albee of Cornell, Jared S. Moore of Western Reserve, Dickinson S. Miller of Smith, Rufus M. Jones of Haverford, Ourant Drake of Vassar, G. W. Cunningham of Texas, John Drew of Columbia and Will Durant of the Labor Temple School, Manhattan (whose extensive work...