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Like Biblical Gideon, who required three signs from the Lord before he went forth to smite the Midianites, University of Chicago's Professor Harry David Gideonse*is a skeptic and a warrior. Gideonse battles, however, not for the Lord but for the Scientific Method. This made him a natural...
For over a year these two have been carrying on the most violent war in U. S. higher education. It started with President Hutchins' book, The Higher Learning in America. Mr. Hutchins proposed that U. S. universities try to restore order to a confused world by teaching people the...
Most remarkable fact abput this war was that Harry Gideonse went on teaching at the university, unmolested by his boss. Tall, lanky, Dutch-born Harry Gideonse is 37 (two years younger than President Hutchins) and well liked by his faculty colleagues. He strides about the campus with his big German...
But Harry Gideonse's rank still remained that of associate professor, his salary $5,500. Three times his colleagues recommended that he be appointed to a full professorship; three times President Hutchins ignored the recommendation. Last week Harry Gideonse quit the University of Chicago, accepted a,full professorship at...
...Last fall, she made a drawing of her eleven-year-old daughter, Frances ("Franja"), a lively little girl who wears her black hair in bangs and braids. To 1,000 fellow faculty members, students and friends last December went a card inscribed on the back: "Merry Christmas from the Hutchinses." On the front was the drawing of the Hutchinses' young daughter holding two candles...