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...intercollegiate parley of students gathered at Middletown, Connecticut, to discuss problems of American college education, Dr. Alexander Meiklejohn, former President of Amherst, advanced a remarkable proposal in his speech Friday evening. This well known educator advocated doing away entirely with the lecture system in American colleges and substituting in its place a complete tutorial method. More than sixty delegates, students from colleges in every part of the country, applauded him roundly for this suggestion...
...interesting to compare this view with the opinion on college athletics held by Dr. Alexander Meiklejohn, former president of Amherst. In his book, "Freedom and the College," published in 1922, Dr. Meiklejohn says in the chapter on "What Are College Games...
...During my last trip to England and Scotland, from which I returned October 24," Writes Dr. Meiklejohn, "I attended the Conference of the Labor Party at Liverpool, and the annual meeting for the drafting of the Labor policy. The party expressed its determined opposition to communism, and the meeting was described almost unanimously by the British press as indicating the complete return of Ramsay McDonald to control and leadership...
...Alexander Meiklejohn, former president of Amherst College, recently appointed Professor of Logic at St. John's College in Annapolis. Md., will speak at Ford Hall tonight. His subject has been announced as "Thinking in a Democracy...
...Meiklejohn, during the eleven years of his presidency at Amherst, built up a unique educational experiment which had its climax in his dramatic resignation two years ago in 1923. Since that date, Dr. Meiklejohn has spoken in various sections of this country and also in England and Scotland...