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...youngest of eight children of a Scottish immigrant, Alexander Meiklejohn took over Amherst in 1912 after earning a Ph.D. in philosophy at Cornell and serving as professor and dean at Brown University. Meiklejohn had already developed some pronounced views on higher education. He detested the chaos of the elective system, deplored the over-specialization of college teachers. "It is through them," said he at his inauguration, "that we attempt to give our boys a liberal education, which the teachers themselves [have] not achieved." Meiklejohn's goal: to give country-clubbish Amherst a stronger taste of intellectual excellence...
...Faced with an explosive plan to merge the Church of Scotland with the Church of England, appoint elders for the Anglicans, elect bishops for the Scots (TIME, June 3), the Church of Scotland's General Assembly decided not to decide, post-poned action for a year. Rumbled the Scottish edition of the Daily Express: "Instead of the sudden death it deserved, this iniquitous proposal is given another twelve months of dangerous life...
...George F. MacLeod its new moderator despite his known promerger leanings, vigorously shushed a delegate who opposed his election. But whatever sounds of ecumenical accord come this week from the General Assembly, in the background there will be the rumble of dour dissent from clergy and churchgoers. Rumbled the Scottish Daily Express: "The spirit of Knox is not dead...
...then still largely unknown and unexplored heart of Africa, the four principal powers now remaining have each pursued a different, and often faltering, path to the inevitable future. Pragmatic Britain, whose colonies range from the dense, forbidding forests of the west, where few whites live, to the Scottish-like highlands of the European settlers in the east, has tried to shape its policy to the complexities of each situation. With frequent glaring mistakes, often hastily rectified (e.g., the highhanded exile of Uganda's Cambridge-educated Kabaka, "King Freddie," three years ago), the Colonial Office has sought, against opposition from...
...breed of adventurer-explorer to bring the world to Middle Africa and to unfold its wonders for the world -men prompted not by simple greed but by human compassion and scientific curiosity, drawn onward by the land itself. There was the discoverer of Victoria Falls, David Livingstone, the gentle Scottish medical missionary who went to Africa because an opium war in China kept him from achieving his ambition to go there. There was Henry Stanley, a British-born U.S. reporter, who went to Africa in search of a feature story for James Gordon Bennett's New York Herald...