The Spike: or, Victoria College Review, September 1923
Cities of Refuge
Cities of Refuge
"Also, there is a New England college of considerable reputation whose president has taken a firm stand for openmindedness, and that is Amherst. President Meiklejohn was one of the live men who got out of Brown when it began to die. He is now trying to make one small college in which young men are taught to think, instead of just to believe in dogmas, He is in the midst of a fight with reactionary trustees: in 1920 they asked for his resignation, but he consulted a lawyer, and told them they had no authority in the premises. He is still in office, for how long I do not know."—"The-Goose-Step," p. 432.