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This spring, the graduating class of small (500 students), Quaker-founded Haverford College, outside Philadelphia, decided that the hit-and-run Commencement speaker was too far removed from his audience. They invited their man to spend a week on the campus, living and arguing with undergraduates. They picked a lively...
Robert Maynard Hutchins, who left the University of Chicago to underpin the Ford Foundation, made an appearance at a credit-men's convention in San Francisco and unburdened himself of some random thoughts on the lurking perils of 100% Americanism: "To hear these people [i.e., superpatriots] talk, you would...
At week's end McCarthy was still firing countercharges from the hip. From Midwestern platforms he repeatedly blasted Murrow for being an "extreme left-wing bleeding heart," and reported in shocked tones that in 1935 Murrow had been on the advisory council for a summer school at Moscow University...
100. In his new book, The Conflict in Education, Robert M. Hutchins attacks U.S. higher education on the grounds that it:
Dr. Hutchins is not only living in an ivory tower, he has sealed himself in with ivory bricks, using ivory mortar, until he is completely isolated from the world...