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Your editorial of last Tuesday, criticizing Dr. Alexander Meiklejohn's New York speech, calls for no little criticism itself. It indicates ignorance of Dr. Meiklejohn's activities and ideas, and, what is less to be expected from an undergraduate editorial, inattentive reading of excerpts of the speech...
...speak of his "usual sackcloth and ashes," implying thereby that you know a great deal about Dr. Meiklejohn and actually proving that you did not. Did your editorial writer ever read any of his other speeches, or his books? Did he ever hear of the Experimental College at the University of Wisconsin, headed by Dr. Meiklejohn? There, a group of teachers, discouraged as you often are with the sterility and formalization of so much college study, is investigating methods and materials of instruction in the belief that something can be done to remedy both. Their inspirer is not "utterly discouraged...
...crusade to rescue Jerusalem found a watery grave. Only in sheer revulsion can youth completely overstep the examples of those older and often self-styled the wiser. Protests from students against new educational experiments are received with as much indifference by educators as, according to the sighs of Dr. Meiklejohn, educators receive from students...
Wailing from a Park Avenue Presbyterian pulpit, Dr. Meiklejohn, director of the experimental college of the University of Wisconsin, covers himself with his usual sackcloth and ashes and vainly questioning, beats the un answering dust. Utterly discouraged with the futility of all educational institutions, this fiery and pessimistic crusader bitterly cites the Chinese famine, the disarmament conference, and the sordid evils of industrialism and finally points an interrogatory finger at the student, idle and ineffectual, at the teacher, cynical and discouraged. Inert ideas, learning unrelated to life, dullness in the classroom are some of the charges brought against modern education...
...light of Harvard's recent petition to Stimson and Hoover in regard to the management of the disarmament conference. Undergraduate publications in practically all American colleges bear witness to an interest in other problems of national and world significance. If in the face of these facts Dr. Meiklejohn still insists on the indifference of the students, he will run the risk of becoming a male Cassandra, prophet only of evil...