Word: hutchinses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Describing the university as "an amazing institution which does everything and will do it for everybody," Robert M. Hutchins, President of the University of Chicago, proposed a "Possible Reorganization of Colleges and Secondary schools" in a speech yesterday to over 1000 delegates of the New England Association representing those educational...
Hutchins suggested that students without definite abilities should not be allowed to go beyond the sophomore year. In order "to induce people to leave" at that time, some degree will have to be given them. Since degrees are meaningless anyway, the Bachelor of Arts might as well be given then...
And so our educational facilities must be enlarged and changed to take care of "more students for more time." Hutchins proposed a new plan which would involve six years of elementary school, four years of high school, and four years "more or less" of cultural or technical training.
Robert M. Hutchins, President of the University of Chicago, will make the major address of the meeting and is expected to propose a reorganization of secondary schools and colleges.
Thus aligned against their Board of Education for the first time, half of Chicago's teachers were embarked on an ambitious crusade, in which the restoration of the merit system was only one aim. Still suffering from a 22% pay cut, the teachers were out to gain the salary...