At Wisconsin

Summer's peace on the shores of Lake Mendota (Madison, Wis.) is broken by the fall of hammers and the whine of planes. New dormitories are arising, where a year from this autumn the first fruit of the administration of President Glenn Frank of the University of Wisconsin will burgeon. It is to be an experimental college starting with 125 freshmen--all men--voluntarily enrolled to undertake two years of "project study" under the direction of Professor Alexander Meiklejohn and a special faculty. In 1928 another 125 freshmen will be admitted. At the end of its second experimental year, each class will be returned to the university proper as juniors in full standing, to match their training with that of orthodox third-year students in the College of Letters and Science.

Besides being the first fruit of the Frank regime, the college will perform a test of educational theories that Dr. Meiklejohn has been propounding since his policies lost him his presidential chair at Amherst in 1923. The young gentlemen of Wisconsin will be asked to study a single civilization intensively from many angles, as explained by Drs. Frank and Meiklejohn in magazine articles lately (TIME, May 31).