Word: alling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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"Is Dean Hutchins in?" he asked. "I'm Hutchins," replied the young man in flannels. "Come in and tell me what you know about the law of evidence." From that meeting on, Philosopher Mortimer Adler was to learn a lot about the dean-and so was the rest of...
Hutchins was sure that he could. Chicago set up a college that was to give a basic liberal education by the end of the sophomore year. Students who wanted to specialize thereafter could do so in the university. Instead of a hodgepodge of electives, there were only four main course...
In spite of the deploring, however, the Chicago Plan worked. Though free to stay away, students flocked to classes where no attendance records were kept and no grades given. Gradually, the Great Books were worked into the courses, until this year they are 75% of the reading for the B.A...
Beyond these matters, Hutchins' chief interests are his old ones. He is helping to sponsor a project, with Mortimer Adler at its head, to compile a giant index of the Great Books-a learned cross-file of all the great ideas the great minds have ever voiced. Meanwhile, as...
Cucumbers & Cheese. "It's not that I know much about education," Hutchins once said just before launching into one of his attacks, "it's that I know nothing else." The son of a Presbyterian preacher1 who was also a professor of homiletics (pulpit oratory), he has been around...