Word: hancher
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Virgil M. Hancher grew up on an Iowa farm, went from the State University of Iowa to Oxford for his M.A., and eventually turned himself into a successful Chicago lawyer. But today at 55, Hancher is renowned neither as farmer nor lawyer: he is one of the top state university presidents...
...also a familiar figure far beyond his own 700 acres. Last week, when the American Council on Education wanted someone to head a new committee to study Government scientific research grants to universities ($100-150 million a year), it could think of no abler man than Virgil Hancher...
More Practitioners. In a way, it was an odd choice, for Hancher's own interests are anything but scientific. "We teach," says he, "and as a university always will teach the physical sciences . . . But our unique concentration of power focuses upon those things which concern men and women as men and "women." Hancher calls these things "humanology," and in the last twelve years Iowa has seen quite a bit of that...