Education: Mild-Mannered Maverick

A college reunion is inevitably a nostalgic affair, but for many old grads who assembled in the Amherst College chapel one day last week, the reunion brought back more than memories of student high jinks, flunked exams and eccentric professors. In the pulpit, conducting chapel service just as he had done so many times more than 30 years before, stood a bird-like man of 85. Former President Alexander Meiklejohn (pronounced Meekle-john) back at Amherst for an official visit, was the hit of the reunion show —as mild-mannered and spry as ever, but still...

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