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...University Chapter of the Phi Beta Kappa has selected for its Commencement exercises, President Meiklejohn, of Amherst, as orator, and Hermann Hagedorn '07 as poet...
President Meiklejohn has been president of Amherst since 1912, before which time he was a member of the faculty at Brown University. He is a member of the American Philosophical Society and the American Psychological Association. His human interest in all problems will undoubtedly make his oration an interesting...
Once more President Meiklejohn of Amherst has spoken in a way that distinctly reveals his habit of doing all his own thinking and of doing it vigorously. What he had to say on academic freedom before the Boston Baptist Social Union the other night was reported in a way that implied considerable antagonism to the position taken on this subject by the American Association of University Professors, and may even have been so intended. It is true that the association report did quite sharply divide the members of the teaching force from the members of the collegiate boards of trustees...
...novel feature in connection with the final chapel exercises of the Amherst College seniors was the formal announcement of the election of President Meiklejohn as an honorary member of the class in view of the fact that the president and the seniors began their connection with the college at the same time. In token of his acceptance of the honorary membership conferred upon him by the class, the President doffed his doctor of laws regalia, was escorted to a place among the seniors in the front row and at the conclusion of the exercises marched out between the class marshal...
...Lecture on "The Policy of a Liberal College," by President Alexander Meiklejohn of Amherst College, in Phillips Brooks House, under the auspices of the Graduate Schools Society...