Word: hutchinses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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To the University of Chicago's still-youthful President Robert Maynard Hutchins, 38, the most characteristic feature of the modern world is bewilderment. This bewilderment he would attack with a return to reason. To him the university is the place of all places to grapple with those fundamental principles...
Last week in Manhattan, with no impunity except his own brilliance, Chicago's Hutchins shredded the complacency of nearly 1,000 members of the New York State Bar Association with an indictment of the limited notion lawyers have of their profession. Then, with equal candor, he propounded his philosophy...
President Hutchins is a lawyer by training. He believes that lawyers and educators interested in training lawyers must reconstruct legal education so as to achieve a learned profession and the common good. He would train lawyers to practice for the welfare of the community and not as a means of...
Despite the ominous prediction of Robert Maynard Hutchins that the Harvard national scholarships "will be unsuccessful", President Conant not only has shown that he intends to stay in this poker game of educational policy, but yesterday stacked six more fat chips on the strength of his hand. Next September, instead...
The ultimate goal of the national scholarships is to reach students from every state in the Union. President Hutchins assumes that the Conant plan merely attempts to break down the obstacle of a prospective student's geographical remoteness from Harvard. It is far more than that, and based upon a...