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One day in 1902 a mop-headed, bumptious, 22-year-old sculpture student from Manhattan's East Side collected $400 for illustrating a book by Hutchins Hapgood. On this, he bought a ticket to Paris, where during his first few weeks he:
Then he attacked the catalogue of courses. Most State university presidents agree that the worst handicap to education in their universities is the curriculum, a Sears, Roebuck affair that makes little connected sense. Inveighing against this "trade-school" trend in U.S. higher education, President Brandt launched a plan (like the...
1100 Yard Relay won by Lowell (Hutchins, Coleridge, Chapin, Young, Blum, Makinson, Flint, Allard, Allard, Garland), Eliot, second, Dunster, third. Time: 2:1.2.
The Chicago president also called for a comprehensive survey of all manpower needs and for provisions to admit to college enough people to fill them. Such people should be put in a reserve and payed while in college, Hutchins stated.
According to the Hutchins plan, this manpower reservoir would pursue a liberal arts course for two years and then branch out into more specialized training. Those who had not maintained a minimum standard would then be subject to immediate draft, he said.