Word: hutchinses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Ten years ago a graduating Yaleman named William McChesney Martin Jr. polled three votes as "most likely to succeed'' in his class. Last week 31-year-old Bill Martin was unanimously elected to the No. 1 financial job of Wall Street- president of the New York Stock Exchange...
When he was a Dartmouth undergraduate, Hamilton's new 39-year-old president, William Harold Cowley, crusaded as editor of the Dartmouth against class fights and other hallowed horseplay, induced the college to re-study and eventually change its curriculum. His classmates voted that he had "done most for...
For over a year these two have been carrying on the most violent war in U. S. higher education. It started with President Hutchins' book, The Higher Learning in America. Mr. Hutchins proposed that U. S. universities try to restore order to a confused world by teaching people the...
Most remarkable fact abput this war was that Harry Gideonse went on teaching at the university, unmolested by his boss. Tall, lanky, Dutch-born Harry Gideonse is 37 (two years younger than President Hutchins) and well liked by his faculty colleagues. He strides about the campus with his big German...
But Harry Gideonse's rank still remained that of associate professor, his salary $5,500. Three times his colleagues recommended that he be appointed to a full professorship; three times President Hutchins ignored the recommendation. Last week Harry Gideonse quit the University of Chicago, accepted a,full professorship at...