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Since 1923, when he buzzed angrily out of New England, Dr. Alexander Meiklejohn, bumblebee of U. S. pedagogy, has circled uncertainly about over the educational field, shooting off for a space to Europe, returning to circle some more, with a louder buzz about an "independent college" to be founded for three millions with the aid of friends (TIME, June 25, 1923 et seq; Sept. 15, 1924). At one point, the students of Knox College informally extended a bouquet to the buzzing one, in the shape of their presidential chair (TIME, Dec. 29), but the circling continued, not only because...
...Meiklejohn believes in small enrollments. At St. John's he will find one-last year there were 148 students...
Last winter the students of Knox College (Galesburg, Ill.) placarded their campus: "We want Meiklejohn." They meant Dr. Alexander Meiklejohn, revolutionary deposed President of Amherst College. They wanted Dr. Meiklejohn for President of Knox to succeed Dr. James L. McConaughy who last January shifted to the chair of Wesleyan University (TIME, Dec. 29). They thought Dr. Meiklejohn and his liberalism were "indispensable." But Dr. Meiklejohn was planning an "independent" university of his own (TIME, Sept. 15) and the students' placards faded, wilted...
...Alexander Meiklejohn Amherst...
...father's fraternity (Phi Gamma Delta). He has met with decorum all the customary American assaults upon the dignity of a freshman (they once made him speak half an hour from a soapbox in praise of Senator LaFollette). And President George D. Olds-veteran professor who succeeded Alexander Meiklejohn - described his academic record as being "very satisfactory...