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"Should we be alarmed by the difference between the behavior of Airman Powers and of Nathan Hale?" asked Fund-for-the-Republic President Robert Maynard Hutchins. He did not wait for an answer. He has already seen dark "signs that the moral character of American society is changing," and has...
It fell to Chancellor Kimpton, now a Standard Oil (Indiana) executive, to spend his nine-year reign tidying up Chicago after the 21-year typhoon of Idealist Robert Maynard Hutchins. He threw out some of Hutchins' more wildly experimental courses, raised sagging undergraduate enrollment to 2,100, nearly doubled...
Shooting for the Sky. Audacious tinkering is under way at Illinois' offbeat Shimer College, once a University of Chicago affiliate, which is stoutly carrying on the ideas of Chicago's onetime boss, Robert Maynard Hutchins. Shimer accepts bright youngsters as early as sophomore year in high school, lets...
After slumping for several weeks, retail sales turned up again at the end of September, were 4% over last year for the last week reported. Business loans, an indicator of plans for future business activity, rose sharply in the first three weeks of September-by some $600 million-after a...
Because one builds an "eye-catching" school this doesn't completely satisfy the prerequisites of a sound education. As long as finance committees and American towns prefer to squander their money on architects and contractors, they can expect teachers to remain underpaid, books to be second rate, and their...