Meiklejohn College?

"What will he do next?" was the question in university circles when Dr. Alexander Meiklejohn resigned the presidency of Amherst College last year after a lively spat over educational theories with the alumni and trustees (TIME, June 25, 1923, et seq.). Last week the Boston Transcript published an answer to the question.

According to the Transcript, Dr. Meiklejohn had spent most of his time, since resigning and making a country-wide lecture tour, in conferring with friends and associates over plans for a $3,000,000 "independent" college. A site had not been picked, but it seemed likely some abandoned school plant might be bought for reasons of economy. The faculty had not been announced, but would probably include a number of Amherst professors who resigned with Dr. Meiklejohn. The en dowment millions and the new student body were still missing, but were doubtless to be recruited among people who have confidence in Dr. Meiklejohn and agree with him that a college should be small, should nurture freedom of thought and discussion, should tolerate nothing short of the best teaching, should keep free from tradition's hide binding tendency.