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President Alexander Meiklejohn, of Amherst College, will speak on "The Policy of a Liberal College" in Phillips Brooks House tonight at 8 o'clock. Every member of the Graduate Schools is invited to attend the lecture, which is given under the auspices of the Graduate Schools Society...
...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...
Encouragement for those educators who thus believe may be drawn from the reports that come of the effect of the war on undergraduates in the colleges and universities of the United States. President Meiklejohn of Amherst recently said that, judging by his own experience this term, teachers of ethics and moral idealism were to be forced by the students to answer deeper questions on living and duty than ever before had been put to them by youth...
...English university ideal, with the university in control of the teaching and the small college (within the university) doing much for youth on the cultural and social sides. Like Princeton, following the lead set by Woodrow Wilson, Harvard that of A. Lawrence Lowell, and Amherst that of Alexander Meiklejohn, Yale is beginning to react favorably on the popular demand that in some way culture, scholarship and intellectuality be restored to a dominant place in the American national academic ideal, from which it has been ousted by athletics, fraternity excesses and premature specialization in order to get a living promptly after...
This morning the general topic for discussion will be "What is the College for?" The speakers will be: Principal Alfred E. Stearns of Phillips Academy, Andover; President Alexander Meiklejohn of Amherst College, and Commissioner of Education John H. Fenley of New York State...