Education: Athens and Owls

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In Wisconsin, last week, many things occurred. An owl floated like a shadow through the shadowy woods, an old man mumbled to himself as he looked at the hills, and far more important than either, in the town of Madison, near the blue mirror of Lake Mendota, a college opened. This was the Experimental College which President Glenn Frank of the University of Wisconsin had helped insurgent Dr. Alexander Meiklejohn, onetime President of Amherst, to organize near his own bizarre and tremendous apparatus for...

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