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...Bolton Smith of Memphis (whose son refused to take his degree at Amherst when President Meiklejohn was ousted) proposed that the Faculty should be represented on the Administrative Council of the University. And he gained this much- that two of the four Faculty members should be elected by the Faculty...
...professors resigned from the Amherst faculty as a result of the dramatic misunderstanding which forced President Meiklejohn out. One of them, Rev. Albert Parker Fitch, has a national reputation as a fiery, spiritually prophetic and denunciatory; and passionately intellectual orator...
...only difference between the affair at Amherst and the affair at Clark is that they have nothing in common. President Alexander Meiklejohn of Amherst is a great educator. President Wallace W. Atwood of Clark is what is known as an " authority on geography." President Meiklejohn is a liberal. President Atwood is a reactionary. President Meiklejohn is opposed by his trustees arid supported by his student body. President Atwood is opposed by his student body and supported by his trustees. President Meiklejohn seems sure to lose his job. President Atwood seems sure to keep...
...there is a more important difference. The affair at Clark is a conflict of personalities. The affair at Amherst is a conflict of educational theories. President Meiklejohn was brought to Amherst eleven years ago to shake up and revitalize a rapidly decaying College. He was installed as a reformer. And he set about to reform. He had a definite theory of education which he proceeded to put into action. That theory was the theory of education as a stimulus to inquiry and speculation rather than a mere communication of dogma. As it was once expressed by Professor W. H. Hamilton...
President Meiklejohn believed that his theory could best be realized by keeping Amherst a small College. He was, furthermore, inevitably opposed to mediocre teaching. And he was against the use of professional coaches in college athletics. .The result was to array against himself those older alumni who disapproved of his educational ideas and resented a system which trained young men to ask questions, the teachers whom he had been compelled to remove, the graduates who thought of their College as a booster thinks of his home town and whose ambition was a "bigger, better Amherst," and the alumni...