Word: hutchinses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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One of the most interesting U. S. colleges is Berea, an institution in the Kentucky mountains for the higher education of smart hillbillies. Its president is small, unsanguine Dr. William James Hutchins, who wears homespun suits made by his students, once said of his graduates, "I feel like a man...
Dr. Hutchins has two sons. Son Robert Maynard became president of University of Chicago at 30. Son Francis Stevenson became head of Yale-in-China* at 23.
Dr. Prosser rejects "cold-storage knowledge" in repulsive psychological terminology on the grounds that the student "loses all such indispensable assets for efficient learning and its retention as interest, motivated incentive, and adequate epperceptive basis for understanding what is taught, and adequate opportunity to apply, test, and fix it through...
There has been a growing conviction among educators of late--a common conviction which has almost assumed the proportions of a trend--that this process has exceeded its proper limits. Even Mr. Hutchins and Mr. Conant, who are more comfortable glaring at each other across a ring, stand united on...
Dr. Bob Hutchins, now president of the University of Chicago, once called Bill Douglas the "outstanding professor of law of the nation." Douglas wrote a textbook and taught three courses to earn his way through Columbia Law School, was graduated No. 2 in his class. For two years with the...