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¶ An appointment-of-the-week which did not come off was that of President Robert Maynard Hutchins of the University of Chicago to be NRA's chief enforcement officer. Young Mr. Hutchins took train in Chicago, went to Washington, was closeted with the President. Then, just as abruptly...
Last spring Mr. Robert Hutchins enunciated in his own loud and clear manner the opinion that there is only one difference between the nature of study during the Freshman year at an American college and at a preparatory school, and that is that preparatory school students are better instructed. It...
Next noon the three ladies reached Crossville, Tenn., drove to the top of Cumberland Mountain Plateau to inspect a subsistence homestead project. There indefatigable Mrs. Roosevelt declined an invitation from the Mayor of Rockwood to climb the Cumberland's Mt. Roosevelt.* Instead she drove until 8 p.m. to reach Berea...
The "open book" test tried last week was partly an experiment, partly an extension of President Robert M. Hutchins' four-year-old New Plan in which the student gets a degree by taking comprehensive examinations whenever he feels ready. "The student who thoroughly understands the subject," reasoned University authorities...
Despite what young Dr. Hutchins may say about the failure of eastern educational leadership, the leading universities of this section continue to forge ahead, each toward the attainment of its own particular educational ideal. Princeton will begin next year the "No-Course Plan" for Seniors of high standing; Harvard announces...