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Southern colleges and University of Chicago's peppery President Robert Maynard Hutchins traded whiffs of grapeshot last week over Chicago's new two-year bachelor's degree. When members of the Southern Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools denounced the Hutchins plan as "cheapening . . . the baccalaureate degree...
University of Chicago will award a bachelor's degree after two years of college. So announced Chicago's bold young President Robert Maynard Hutchins last week. It was one of the most revolutionary moves in U.S. collegiate history, for the B.A. has stood for a four-year college...
President Hutchins urged junior colleges to give a bachelor's degree to their graduates, announced that other universities had indicated they would follow Chicago's example. Chicago's program, he observed, will resemble that of British public schools like Rugby, which weeds out mediocre students, sends only...
Said Hutchins: "General education can easily be completed by the end of the sophomore year. . . . But the junior and senior years ... are crowded with mediocre students who go on to the bachelor's degree because that is the only recognizable reward that college offers. ..." Under Chicago's new...
Although even at Virginia formal religion still appeals to only a sixth of the student body, undergraduates, like many graduates, have decided that theology is again intellectually respectable. At University of Chicago there has been an undergraduate swing to Catholicism during the last two years, credited to lectures by Professor...