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...York World: "There are two things which are impressive in these proposals (the Middletown program). First, they are shrewd: they have accurately sized up the situation which they hope to alter. Second, they are genuine: here are undergraduates thinking out their own problems under nobody's guiding hand...
...York Herald-Tribune: "There could be nothing more significant than the stand taken by the representatives of the undergraduates of half a dozen colleges in conference at Middletown, Conn. In so far as this group works to purge the sport of its hippodroming, ballyhooing features, we are in full sympathy, though we cannot accept all their suggestions for attaining their objective...
...generation and all its works. There have been attempts to reform football by young literati among the undergraduates and minorities of alumni who doubt if the game is worth its present price. Now comes an attempt to reform football by the regulars themselves. Representatives of six colleges met in Middletown on Sunday. They were neither alumni, nor Presidents, nor editors of classical monthlies with a flair for Elizabethan verse; they were, instead, the editors of undergraduate daily newspapers and the Chairmen of undergraduate student bodies at Harvard, Princeton, Bowdoin, Williams, Dartmouth and Wesleyan...
...undergraduates can do with football what they wish to do with it. It is essentially their business and not the business of Presidents, faculties, and alumni. This Middletown statement is as interesting and as challenging as anything which has come from the colleges in years. New York World...
...intercollegiate parley of students gathered at Middletown, Connecticut, to discuss problems of American college education, Dr. Alexander Meiklejohn, former President of Amherst, advanced a remarkable proposal in his speech Friday evening. This well known educator advocated doing away entirely with the lecture system in American colleges and substituting in its place a complete tutorial method. More than sixty delegates, students from colleges in every part of the country, applauded him roundly for this suggestion...