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...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...
...agreement drawn up and approved yesterday by student-delegates from twenty-three colleges to the Inter-collegiate Parley on Education at Wesleyan University is the most significant development that has yet occurred in the movement to reduce the emphasis upon college football. It is now evident that the movement is of no merely local or sectional interest, but is a national reaction of college students against the existing maladjustment between athletics and scholarship...
...Alexander Meiklejohn, former President of Amherst College, speaking Saturday night at the intercollegiate parley on education in session at Wesleyan University, advocated the total abolition of the lecture system in colleges. Colleges in America, he said, have developed under difficult external conditions, but he believed that perceptible progress had been made. He asserted that the lecture system forces all the work on the teacher and enslaves the minds of both teacher and student. Under the lecture system, the college is not teaching; it is merely instructing. Again speaking of the colleges he said, "They treat students as children. A young...
...Intercollegiate World Court Conference of Greater Boston, the preliminary parley to the general assembly of colleges and universities that is to take place at Princeton on December 11 and 12, will have its opening meeting tonight at 8 o'clock in Sever 11. The Conference will continue over the week-end, the final session being scheduled for Sunday afternoon...
Indeed, the American debt commission for once has been bold enough to measure payments in terms not alone of money but of international good will. They have realized that a certain breadth of vision now means a chance to witness a more stable Italy of the future. This parley may rightfully be acclaimed one of great moment...