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...Pericles' Age, then America of the last century. Viewing the two whole, the students might learn to think and live wisely against their contemporary background. So thought Dr. Meiklejohn. To his insurgent College came farm-boys (of native and foreign-born Wisconsin families), Jews from the East, middle and upper-class Wisconsinites, fresh young radicals and quiet conservatives. The Advisers (teachers) had five successive classes-to watch, each of which went on into the University on "the Hill" after sophomore year. Last year it was announced that the 1932 sophomores would be the last experimental batch. A survey...
...last a really significant student demonstration in one of our American institutions of higher learning, and our faith in the colleges is restored. The students of St. Lawrence University, incensed at the calling off of the upper-class "padding bee" for freshmen, presented an ultimatum demanding the extension of time for parties until 2.30 a.m. and the abolition of a ruling "forbidding the parking of girls on fraternity porches during the daytime," and threatening, if these demands were not complied with, to call a strike "against all extra-curricular activities." Here are real issues and a threat of real action...
...forerunner in U. S. colleges long ago. In 1897 a Princeton political economy professor named Woodrow Wilson began thinking about the advisability of re-organization of college life. Basic trouble at Princeton, he thought, was the clubs. President McCosh had suppressed the Greek-letter fraternities; but their successors, the upper-class eating clubs, were just as bad. ''The side shows are swallowing up the circus," was Wilson's famed remark. "There is danger that we will develop socially, as Harvard did and Yale is tending to do." In 1906 he had been president of Princeton for four years...
...gave one of 50 recitals scheduled for the U. S., played with rare skill and sensitiveness a Porpora-Mozart-Beethoven program salted with pleasant short compositions of his own. Spalding's personality as well as his playing finds favor with his audiences. He is tall, distinguished-looking, dignified. Upper-class Americans admire him because he looks so much like one of themselves. He served during the War as an aviation officer, was awarded the Cross of the Crown of Italy, highest Italian honor ever given a foreign-born citizen. He plays excellent tennis, once won the amateur championship...
Those which have come true include: 1) limited enrolment; 2) the four-course system by which upper-class students choose two major courses and two minor, and must stand high in these; 3) increase in size and beauty of the physical plant and strengthening of the faculty. But, withal, President Hibben has been most notable for his general and tireless insistence on the intellectual side of the University...