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...obliging bystander might point to the Norrises, La Follettes and Borahs of politics;* the Fosdicks and Wises of the pulpit; to Associate Justices Holmes and Brandeis on the bench; to John Dewey and Alexander Meiklejohn in pedagogy; to Henry Ford and Owen D. Young as businessmen; to the Crusaders as Liberals on Prohibition; to The Nation, New Republic, St. Louis Post Dispatch and Scripps-Howard chainpapers, and to Will Rogers?all of them exponents of one or another kind of U. S. Liberalism. But for an exemplar and spokesman whose Liberalism would be little disputed and least necessary to define...
...Popper '32, president of the Liberal Club, announced the speakers for the next two meetings. Alexander Meiklejohn, University of Wisconsin, will talk April 9, and Frederick Vanderbilt Field is to speak the latter part of April...
...Alexander Meiklejohn, former president of Amherst College and at present chairman of the Experimental College at the University of Wisconsin, will address the Liberal Club on an unknown subject. F. V. Field '26, secretary of the Institute of Pacific Relations, will speak on American imperialism in China. The Rev. Mr. Reinhold Niebuhr of the Yale Divinity School is also to talk...
There have been many educational ventures in recent years attempting to adapt the modern university to the needs of the present day. Such a venture is the Experimental College at the University of Wisconsin which Dr. Alexander Meiklejohn has recommended be closed in 1932 in order to conduct a survey of the results attained during its five years of experimental existence...
With this extremely mature thesis and the decided trend toward individual liberty the question as to whether freshmen and sophomores are sufficiently competent really to benefit by this method of education is a very dubious one. Dr. Meiklejohn however considers the time ripe for an evaluation of his experiment and the results whether favorable or unfavorable can not fall to be of help in the task of creating a balanced university adapted to the needs of modern life...