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A normal prodigy, neatly dressed in New Haven-tailored suits and plain neckties, Robert Maynard Hutchins was made Secretary of Yale University in 1923, while he was still in law school. Then he said: "I get so sick of hearing that I am young. I wish that I would suddenly...
Ignoring his youth will be more than ever necessary for President Hutchins of Chicago. He will command educational machinery used by nearly 15,000 students. To him for decisions will come such world-famed professors as Egyptologist James Henry Breasted, Greek Scholar Paul Shorey, Physicist Albert Abraham Michelson, Theologian Shailer...
The youngest of big-university presidents was born in Brooklyn, N. Y., of a mother who was graduated at Mt. Holyoke and a father who is now President of Berea College (Kentucky). Education has be come a Hutchins family tradition. The Youngest President's brother, Francis, 26, is head...
Robert Hutchins went, aged 16, to Oberlin College, near Cleveland, for two years. Then War called him to France, where he drove an ambulance, and to Italy, where for bravery he received the Croce di Guerra. Peace called him back to the U. S. and Yale. He worked his way...
When Student Hutchins was still reading law, he married Miss Maude Phelps McVeigh, later an able sculpture student who won a prize in her second year at the Yale School of Fine Arts. To the University of Chicago will go a "first lady" as young for her position as her...