Dr. Alexander Meiklejohn, former President of Amherst College, and now president of the Experimental College of Wisconsin University, is the author of a pamphlet recently issued by that university, containing several significant ideas on the trend of democracy in modern education. It is Dr. Meiklejohn's belief that the big issue which remains particularly untouched by those colleges not experimenting on hold lines, is that of the war going on within the college between what he calls the democracy and the aristocracy. His two factions are not divided into groups of social standing, but rather of intellectual status. A constant pitched battle is going on behind the doors of a handred University Halls between those who think of education in terms of large groups with a medium average of intelligence and those who divide all the student world into the "ideational and the unideational," and say that only the former should be saved on Commencement Day.

Doctor Meiklejohn attacks the latter belief, saying that it is unfair to the individual for the college office, having at hand no better facilities for judgment than those which modern education possesses, to determine which students are deserving of the advanced course, the special class, or the work of the honor group. It is one of the goals of the Experimental College to provide the faculties with the touchstones to make this division justly. "No observation," says Doctor Meiklejohn, "of what people are doing under certain conditions can be conclusive as to what they would be capable of under radically different conditions. And the plain fact is that our educational procedure does not as yet justify us in saying of what our students are or are not capable."