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Robert M. Hutchins, president of the Fund for the Republic, has attacked the proposal for consolidation of high schools made by President Emeritus Conant. Debating with Conant on a Columbia Broadcasting System radio program "The Empty Schoolhouse," Hutchins labelled the plan "impossible and certainly undesirable."
Yet William James called her his "most brilliant woman student." And Gertrude Stein herself, in The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, remembers "enjoying her life" and "liking it all." The apparent contradiction may arise from the complexity of her mind, from the habit she had of speaking just any old...
Economist Sumner Slichter wrote that "in the opinion of many persons" millions (perhaps 8,000,000) would find no jobs in an economy which, like the service veterans, had to reconvert to peacetime production. Afraid that federal subsidies would lure idle vets to campus, the University of Chicago's...
No fewer than 7,800,000 World War II vets took on-job or school training, 2,200,000 of them in college. There they built no Hutchins "hobo jungles" but Quonset villages whence hard-working married vets set new high standards of academic achievement. "They knew how to move...
Since its yeasty youth under moon-shooting Idea Men Paul Hoffman and Robert Maynard Hutchins, the vast Ford Foundation ($2.7 billion in current assets) has grown more staid. Latest evidence: the appointment of Manhattan Banker John J. McCloy, U.S. High Commissioner for Germany from 1949 to 1952, to succeed H...