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A Cornell-and-Stanford-trained philosopher, Kimpton took over a campus intellectually stirred by the sweeping changes of restless Idealist Robert Maynard Hutchins. College courses of broad generalization had buried traditional academic details. It fell to Kimpton to attend to details: an alarming drop in undergraduate enrollment because other schools...
Ignoring much of Hutchins' broad-based undergraduate education, Kimpton restored specialization, regrouped courses in their traditional departments. He upped college enrollment from a low of 1,350 to its current 2,119, raised endowment by $60 million to $133 million, put the university comfortably in the black. To wipe...
Fadiman's attempt to remove this onus by main force is neither so precisely measured as Eliot's invention nor so massive as the Robert Hutchins-Mortimer Adler set of Great Books. Fadimaa. has drawn up a similar list of 100, but 'he provides only an introductory...
In five days on this job Benson, who was operating with the D.A.'s full knowledge, rifled the agency files and turned in ample evidence that stand-in scholarship is a flourishing business. Over the past three years, for example, the agency employing Benson had accepted commissions to write...
Ever since 1933, when President Robert Maynard Hutchins, disturbed at the way teacher education seemed divorced from scholarly pursuits, abolished the school of education, the University of Chicago has been without an organized teacher-training program. In 1958 the university decided it was high time to get back in business...