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In 1920, just as an irate printer was about to destroy the plates for nonpayment of a bill, Sears, Roebuck & Co. stepped in and bought the bankrupt Encyclopaedia Britannica* Three years ago Sears decided that the publication of an encyclopedia was "foreign" to its merchandising business, made an outright gift...
Explained earnest Bob Hutchins: "We have been saying for years that the way to improve society is to educate the people, but we have limited education to infants between the ages of six and 21. . . . The world may not last long enough for the restricted campus education of today to...
Hutchins, who already holds four jobs in the Britannica hierarchy, will add a fifth: chairman of the board of editors. He plans to concentrate on two projects: 1) hopping up Britannica's 24 films a year (most of which strike him as "too timid, too unimaginative"), thereby leading the...
Unless something was done about "amateur" football, and fast, more college presidents might say what the University of Chicago's Robert Maynard Hutchins said about football seven years ago: "Out with it."
The colleges had not been flooded-as Chicago's Chancellor Robert M. Hutchins and others feared-with "educational hobos." Most veterans seemed grateful for the help they got, more than glad to work out the difference. For vets out for an easy time, the 52-20 club (see NATIONAL...