Word: hutchinses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Like Biblical Gideon, who required three signs from the Lord before he went forth to smite the Midianites, University of Chicago's Professor Harry David Gideonse*is a skeptic and a warrior. Gideonse battles, however, not for the Lord but for the Scientific Method. This made him a natural...
...Last fall, she made a drawing of her eleven-year-old daughter, Frances ("Franja"), a lively little girl who wears her black hair in bangs and braids. To 1,000 fellow faculty members, students and friends last December went a card inscribed on the back: "Merry Christmas from the Hutchinses." On the front was the drawing of the Hutchinses' young daughter holding two candles...
Caustic without being bitter is Boston's white-thatched, bow-tied Porter Sargent. The saltiest commentator on U. S. education, from which he makes his living but for which he has a certain amused contempt, Porter Sargent prefaces his famed annual catalogue of 4,000 private schools with his...
Of President Hutchins, once the "boy wonder'' of education, now turned metaphysician, Porter Sargent says: "He would be sure to get the Catholic vote. . . . The Pope is in agreement with Hutchins. as are Mussolini and Hitler. The fascists recruit from good men spent, scared and in retreat. . . . Hutchins...
Last week alumni sat down to dinners in Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco., Minneapolis, Detroit, Princeton and New Haven to celebrate the 80th anniversary of their remarkable preparatory school. In Chicago they heard the school highly praised by University of Chicago's hard- to-please President Robert Maynard Hutchins...