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With Professor Alexander Meiklejohn of the University of Wisconsin and President Henry Noble McCracken of Vassar College as speakers, the National Student Federation of America will discuss "the Student's Part in Education" at its Second Annual Congress to he held at the University of Michigan on December...
...Meiklejohn a Brilliant Speaker...
...Alexander Meiklejohn, former President of Amherst College, has reentered the journalistic spotlight by making the statement that democracy is a delusion, a gospel and a venture, in that it treats people as if they were intelligent, kind, pure, high, generous and sweet. They are nothing of the sort, says Professor Meiklejohn. Since he is evidently referring to American democracy, it must be inferred that the people mentioned are members of the American public...
...lazy people, desiring luxury and case. And their most consistent critic declares that they are guilty of all the foregoing charges and a great many more; as many, to be precise, as he finds necessary to keep the pages of his cultural magazine filled to over-flowing. Now Dr. Meiklejohn has summed Americans up as a race of unintelligent, unkind, corrupt, debased, miserly people...
Besides being the first fruit of the Frank régime, the college will perform a test of educational theories that Dr. Meiklejohn has been propounding since his policies lost him his presidential chair at Amherst in 1923. The young gentlemen of Wisconsin will be asked to study a single civilization intensively from many angles, as explained by Drs. Frank and Meiklejohn in magazine articles lately (TIME...