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"The members of the [Chicago] faculty," President Robert Maynard Hutchins told his guests, "breathe the freest air on this continent." At the freest university on the freest continent, delegates addressed themselves to freedom's future.
Chicago had pitched its celebration on a deliberately optimistic note-but not without grave philosophical headshakings. It gathered scores of eminent scholars to report their explorations (see pp. 68 & 73) on the frontiers of science and philosophy -frontiers from Jerusalem to Buenos Aires. Richard Henry Tawney, professor of economic history...
But more inspiring to the delegates than the learned symposia was the fabulous history of the University of Chicago itself-a story of three men: William Rainey Harper, John D. Rockefeller and Robert Hutchins. Like the university he founded, Harper was a prodigy. Born in an Ohio log cabin, he...
Visitors to Chicago's semicentennial last week saw its second prodigy in the flesh. As tall and handsome as Harper was dumpy and homely, dimple-chinned Robert Maynard Hutchins was secretary of Yale at 24, dean of its law school at 29, president of Chicago at 30. Like Mr...
The scholars and the teachers ought to know these facts. Some of them do. President Hutchins, of the University of Chicago, has shown conclusively how baseless is the call to enter this war to save our democracy from destruction, and how certainly from destruction, and how certainly this destruction will...