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...Meiklejohn, veteran referee of Harvard-Yale boat races, and appointed to officiate this year, will entertain the members of both crews at a dinner at the Hotel Griswold. New London, on Sunday night...
...traditional opinion. He hides under the mask of 'good citizenship". He makes impossible any other educational system than that which trains the students in acceptance, a prettier way of saying that it straight-jackets the intelligence. What then becomes of the Tutorial System, of the Honors course, of Dr. Meiklejohn's college, all of which are in fundamental opposition to such a philosophy? There is no war here between political, or religious, or economic conservatism and radicalism. The dust raising activities of the Red Peril Chaser cannot obscure the issue. The choice is simple. Are the school and college...
Mortimer Leo Schiff is the only "son"?Jacob Henry Schiff's?and he is the youngest (born 1877) of the present four partners. Like President Coolidge, Dwight Whitney Morrow, Arthur Curtiss James, Frank Waterman Stearns, Herbert Lee Pratt, Bruce Barton, Alexander Meiklejohn, the late Henry Ward Beecher, Harlan F. Stone, Frederick H. Gillett, Robert Lansing, Charles E. Mitchell, Joseph B. Eastman, Henry C. Hall, Frank J. Goodnow, he is an Amherst man. Unlike them, he was never graduated, because in his sophomore year he decided he did not want to be just a "rich man's son." He left...
...hardly to be denied that the synthesis of life of which the Princetonian speaks is too often submerged under the mass of analytic facts and information with which education is today encumbered. It is a situation which has been recognized increasingly in recent years. The "civilizational" education of Dr. Meiklejohn is one proposal that has been made to remedy it. A general course in philosophy to round out the Platonic man has been much discussed in Cambridge...
Clarence Darrow, Judge Ben Lindsey, Upton Sinclair, Theodore Dreiser, Eugene O'Neill, Rupert Hughes, William Allen White, John Dewey, Alexander Meiklejohn and Loredo Taft...