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Died. Mrs. Nannine L. Meiklejohn, wife of Alexander Meiklejohn, onetime President of Amherst College; in Baltimore...
...Alexander Meiklejohn, La-Follette of college presidents, there is balm in Galesburg, Ill. Last week, the young men and women of Knox College stuck placards about their campus, issued a statement: "We believe Mr. Meiklejohn to be the exponent of the liberal college and believe he is indispensable to Knox if Knox is to maintain the leadership of liberal colleges which she has attained through the activities of preceding administra- tions...
...other words, undergraduate Knox wanted Dr. Meiklejohn for her President when her present head, Dr. James L. McConaughy, departs after Jan. 1 to become President of Wesleyan University. It seemed doubtful, however, that Dr. Meiklejohn would be more than flattered and gratified by this informal invitation. Aroused to action by the losing fight he fought in 1923 when, as President of Amherst, he sought to put in effect there his liberal principles of education (TIME, June 25, 1923 et seq.), Dr. Meiklejohn has been plan- ning an "independent" university of his own (TIME, Sept...
...announcement of a new and "independent" college to be organized by Dr. Alexander Meiklejohn is obviously unauthorized and premature. Such details as have appeared, furthermore, are obviously inaccurate. One newspaper account derives a fanciful picture of the new institution from the presumed antipathy of its founder to semester examinations. The "precise issue" upon which Dr. Meiklejohn resigned from Amherst, it says, was the mid-year examination and the separation of "junior and senior colleges." This is a new theory of the liberal college. Neither the triviality nor the palpable irresponsibility of such descriptions of the new college have deterred editorial...
...which is solemn nonsense whether or not Dr. Meiklejohn is actually about to organize a new college. It is also evidence that he had better. We seem to need something to show us. If Dr. Meiklejohn will undertake the job he will find plenty to do. The New Republic