Word: hutchinses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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No flighty theorist is 31-year-old President Robert Maynard Hutchins of the University of Chicago. No flight of fancy was his speech to southern pedagogs three weeks ago at Chapel Hill, N. C. on a "University of Utopia" where "hours and residence requirements as criteria for winning college degrees...
College no longer means a four year search for knowledge; it has become more nearly a social convention. President Hutchins in an attempt to restore to college education its former prestige has transformed the University of Chicago. He frankly admits that his plan is an experiment and that, like all...
There is one difficulty in the idea. It puts a premium upon speed. A good man will be anxious to prove his worth by graduating as rapidly as possible. It is impossible to absorb a large amount of reading in a short space of time, and reading is a necessary...
For although California's energetic Sproul or Chicago's youthful Hutchins or Columbia's voluble Butler might go out to have a word with the football team, it is almost unknown for Princeton's quiet, academic Dr. John Grier Hibben to do so. What he told...
Assembled at Chapel Hill last week was the third annual Southern Conference on Education, guests of the University of North Carolina. Most of the pedagogs at the gathering were Southerners, but young President Robert Maynard Hutchins of the University of Chicago made the pithiest point, in his discussion of "Utopia...