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When Lawrence Kimpton, after only a year as vice president for development at :he University of Chicago, took over as chancellor in 1951, the academic world fixed a watchful eye on him. What could Philosopher Kimpton do that Robert Hutchins had not already done? Last week, when Kimpton's...
In spite of Hutchins' brilliant-and often controversial-contributions to U.S. higher education, Chicago was suffering from some major aches when he left (to become associate director of the Ford Foundation). The campus was in danger of becoming an island in a sea of slums, and the whole area...
Imaginative Flair. When Kimpton attacked the problem of the Hutchins B.A., some professors shook their heads in dismay. But the chancellor made it clear that he had no intention of throwing out the broad sort of program Hutchins had in mind. Today the university offers three plans to its undergraduate...
For all these accomplishments, Kimpton realizes that the University of Chicago has lost much of the experimental glamour of the Hutchins era. Nor has he been able to replace such men as Physicist Enrico Fermi, who died last November, Psychologist Louis Thurstone and Sociologist Ernest Burgess, who retired, or Chemist...
¶Reporter Bob Sherrill of the Austin American-Statesman remembers clearly that he had never heard the colorful phrase until it crossed Dr. Hutchins' lips.-ED.