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Shepherds in Sackcloth...
...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...
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...
Some of the early Quakers went barefoot, some in sackcloth, some even naked. In moments of great fervor they exhibited violent physical reactions, and it was their contention that those who did not know "quaking and trembling" had not found the "Christ within." To this is ascribed the name "Quakers," given them in derision in the first years of the movement...
...sold" on TIME and await its arrival as eagerly as my Christmas presents but the article in the March 12 issue with reference to Mrs. Eddy's love of dress and her daily manicure is out of place. I see no earthly reason for her going about in sackcloth and ashes and as for clean nails I was brought up to expect that in any lady. RALPH M. MEARS Charleston...