Word: hutchinses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Robert Maynard Hutchins, president of the University of Chicago, again denied the rumor which was recently published in the Daily Maroon, the undergraduate publication, that he was being considered for the presidency of Yale University.
In the first place, there seems small cause for this arbitrary readjustment. Most graduates are more than thankful for their four college years, and with good reason. Of greater practical importance, however, is the fact that no sharp, uncompromising line can be drawn between so-called "general education" and graduate...
In the October issue of Harpers Magazine, Chicago University's President Robert Maynard Hutchins voices a sincere outcry against those influences in American life which combine to produce "confusion in higher education". "The state of the nation determines the state of education," says President Hutchins, "but how can we hope...
The methods which President Hutchins proposes, however, are both revolutionary and impractical. In his enthusiasm for the cause of high scholarship and uninterrupted research, he bends over backwards to obliterate all that for which American college of the liberal arts have striven. Basing his argument on the doubtful proposition that...
¶ In darker mood, at University of Chicago youthful President Robert Maynard Hutchins gloomed: "The world seems to be rushing toward the destruction of liberty of conscience, of worship, of speech, and of thought. . . . This tendency . . . will not be without its effects in our own country. Already we see signs...