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FARLOW HOUSE Dugald BurnsSally Baird, Watertown, N. Y. Jack Jlison Eleanor Igleheart, Wheaton Edward H. Mahoney Shirley Carpenter, Newton Jack Torgan Edith Warren, Radcliffe GRAYS HALL Francisco J. Cardona Nancy Larson, Lasoll Donald B. Colo Nancy Todd, Wilmington John W. Ellison Ruthabeth Kreuger, Winchester Richard B. Fawcott Eleanor Downing, Waltham...
With shrewd, persuasive John Cowles to Minneapolis went the Register & Tribune's high-powered, Mencken-shaped Managing Editor Basil ("Stuffy") Walters, who got his start as editor of an A.E.F. newspaper in Italy with Adolphe Menjou and Robert Maynard Hutchins (now president of the University of Chicago). Third of...
Like Robert Maynard Hutchins, 42, strapping, six-foot-two Dr. William Harold Cowley, 41, was a precocious youngster in U. S. education. Hutchins, while still a Yale student (Law, '25), was Secretary of the University. Cowley, while still a Dartmouth ('24) undergraduate, conducted a successful campaign to reorganize...
Thereupon Dr. Cowley started a public feud with Dr. Hutchins. Accusing Dr. Hutchins of excessive "intellectualism," Dr. Cowley expounded a rival philosophy and coined a name for it: "holoism" (i.e., education of "the whole man," not merely his mind). Last week Dr. Cowley's crusade against Hutchinsism bore spectacular fruit. He was offered the presidency of the University of Minnesota, second largest U. S. university (15,167 full-time students), by unanimous vote of its board of regents. To Hutchins, vocational-minded, unclassical Minnesota is an arch example of what a university should not be. Cowley, delighted with...
Once at a meeting, a number of faculty members charged the University with not giving certain of its teachers secure tenure of their jobs. President Hutchins claimed that this practice kept them on their toes. "Vot you mean." Ajax burst out, "is dot it keeps dem on deir knees."