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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Chicago. "I have no idea of revolutionizing it overnight," he announced at the beginning; but he soon seemed to be doing just that. "Why are you in such a hurry?" a professor once asked him. Replied Hutchins: "No successful president ever did anything to a school after his first five years...
...battery of clerks outside take pleasure in calling "God's Office." The only thing he had consented to do was to write a report entitled The State of the University ("Down the Hill with Hutchins," he calls it), a faithful and not particularly modest account of his first brilliant and stormy 20 years...
...Real School." By Hutchins' own provocative standards, Chicago was. Anyone else might have been given pause by the fact that such universities as Harvard, Yale, Columbia and California, not to mention Oxford, Cambridge and the Sorbonne, also existed. Actually, Chicago had been jostling about among the first four or five U.S. universities for quite some time...
Under its first president, William Rainey Harper, the school that John D. Rockefeller had founded in 1891 with a $600,000 gift (and which John D. had originally thought of as just a good Baptist college) became a first-rank university almost at birth. As its grey, Gothic-style buildings sprang up on Chicago's dreary South Side, notable minds had nocked to it: Philosopher John Dewey, Economist Thorstein Veblen, Archeologist James Henry Breasted. It was a place of exciting research, fired by the spirit of scientific inquiry and by the yeasty pragmatism of John Dewey. "The result...
Bastard of Arts. The first steps, taken over his first years, called for a complete reorganization of the university under a resolution passed by the trustees to permit "experiments in education...