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When Robert Hutchins resigned as Chancellor of the University of Chicago in 1951, his successor was expected to make some changes. But no one expected Lawrence Kimpton to repeal Hutchins' revolutionary notion that a student could earn his bachelor's degree by the end of the traditional sophomore...
To some Chicago men, the new ruling seemed nothing short of treason. Even before the council meeting, 1,300 students had signed a petition against any change, and some 300 paraded in front of the chancellor's house, bearing a banner with an old Hutchins slogan: "Too few have...
After two years of living and working in Southern California (for the Ford Foundation). ex-Chancellor Robert Hutchins of the University of Chicago had begun to feel that he was not the same old Hutchins: he was suffering from an "intellectual deterioration" that suggested itself by "a kind of involuntary...
Said Hutchins: "In Utopia, if there were a House Committee on un-Utopian Activities, as of course there is not, it would dedicate itself to seeking out and exposing those elements in the community which were trying to put an end to difference and hence to that discussion which the...
Having passed the eleventh birthday of ex-Chancellor Robert Hutchins' famed theory that a student should be allowed to earn a bachelor's degree as quickly as he is able, the University of Chicago announced that it was setting up some pretty old-fashioned requirements for its new...