I don't know the details, Laurence, but here is where to find them:  
  
Education and Democracy: The Meaning of Alexander Meiklejohn, 1872-1964. By   
Adam R. Nelson. Madison, Wis.: University of Wisconsin Press, 2001. 416 pp.   
$34.95 hardbound.  
President of Amherst from 1912 to 1924, Meiklejohn was a figure known for   
his strong ideals. This extensively researched book, the first full-length   
study of Meiklejohn, tells, among other things, the story of his   
influential and controversial tenure at Amherst, which ended with his   
dismissal in 1924. Meiklejohn crusaded for democratic government and   
rigorous, moral, classically-based education. He served as dean of Brown   
University before coming to Amherst and afterwards was director of the   
Experimental College at the University of Wisconsin, which he designed as a   
small, undergraduate program with a core curriculum that shifted away from   
students' vocational training. He received the Presidential Medal of   
Freedom in 1963 as a defender of the First Amendment during the McCarthy era.  
  
The excerpt above was found at:  
  
http://www.amherst.edu/magazine/issues/99to01/authors_99to01/au_sum01_collegebooks.html  
  
Bruce Larson