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One of the most interesting U. S. colleges is Berea, an institution in the Kentucky mountains for the higher education of smart hillbillies. Its president is small, unsanguine Dr. William James Hutchins, who wears homespun suits made by his students, once said of his graduates, "I feel like a man...
Dr. Hutchins has two sons. Son Robert Maynard became president of University of Chicago at 30. Son Francis Stevenson became head of Yale-in-China* at 23.
Last week, having rounded out 19 years as Berea's president, Dr. William James Hutchins, 67, retired when Berea's trustees arrived at the end of a two-year hunt for his successor. They elected as Berea's new president Francis Stevenson Hutchins, 37.
Yerkes has the world's biggest refractor (a telescope equipped with a lens instead of a mirror) but it is only 40 inches in diameter. For years Struve has pined for a big reflector. One day he walked into the office of University of Chicago's President Robert...
Struve suggested that if the University of Texas provided the observatory and the University of Chicago a staff to run it, they might accomplish more in such a cooperative enterprise than either could separately. Forthright Bob Hutchins forthwith picked up his telephone, called U. of T.'s president, got...