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Movies are a half-century old and educators tried feebly to make teaching tools of them decades ago. Even now they are a mere educational side show. But last week the University of Chicago gave signs of leading a movement into the main tent. The University's President Robert...
March 6 issue of TIME just arrived. . . . I note President Hutchins of Chicago "U" is to investigate "freedom of the press" under a grant of funds from TIME, LIFE and FORTUNE.
The Aim. The commission's aim was outlined by Chairman Hutchins: "The commission plans to discover where free expression is or is not limited, whether by governmental censorship, pressures of readers or advertisers, the unwisdom of its own proprietors or the timidity of its managers. . . .
The Men. Chairman Hutchins estimated the task would take perhaps two years. The inquiry, he announced, "was made possible by a grant of funds by TIME Inc., publisher of TIME, LIFE, and FORTUNE." He emphasized that TIME Inc. would have no connection with the commission, on which the working press...
*The only U.S. university heads in office longer than Hutchins are Columbia's Nicholas Murray Butler (42 years), Clark's Wallace Walter Atwood (23 years) and Cal Tech's Robert Andrews Millikan (22 years).