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...delighted," dictated President Glenn Frank of the University of Wisconsin one day last week, "to be able to announce the appointment of Alexander Meiklejohn as Professor of Philosophy at the University of Wisconsin. Mr. Meiklejohn is one of the great and gifted teachers of this generation. I think Wisconsin is to be congratulated on his appointment. From him we expect productive scholarship and provocative teaching...
...incongruous, that students of Harvard, where the tutorial system has been tried with such great success, should hesitate and finally reject the proposal to extend that system to the exclusion of the lecture system. We believe, however, that such will be the general reaction at Harvard to Dr. Meiklejohn's suggestion...
...Meiklejohn's proposal may bear fruit in causing the spread of the tutorial idea throughout the colleges of America. It may also arouse college faculties to improve the quality of their lectures, and certainly there is room for improvement. To this extent his address may work good. It would be a great mistake, however, and one which seems altogether unlikely, to apply his suggestion in its literal force...
...Alexander Meiklejohn, former President of Amherst College, speaking Saturday night at the intercollegiate parley on education in session at Wesleyan University, advocated the total abolition of the lecture system in colleges. Colleges in America, he said, have developed under difficult external conditions, but he believed that perceptible progress had been made. He asserted that the lecture system forces all the work on the teacher and enslaves the minds of both teacher and student. Under the lecture system, the college is not teaching; it is merely instructing. Again speaking of the colleges he said, "They treat students as children. A young...
...Meiklejohn further expresses the opinion that the entire system of scholarship in the United States would be benefited if the Guild of American Scholarships was allowed the entire charge of scholarships and was given the right to decide what subjects should be studied...