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The center is something unique in U.S. education. It began during the war, when Chicago's Dean Frances Henne first started to worry about the fact that "there was no place where all books for children were being examined and reported on." Dean Henne carried her worries right up...
Furthermore, declared the successor to Robert Hutchins, college courses at Chicago are "too abstract and theoretical." Without further comment he affirmed that they should be in closer touch with reality.
This week the $513 million Ford Foundation announced that it is going into the magazine business. Starting in October, the foundation will publish Perspectives U.S.A., a quarterly designed to show people outside the U.S. that "Americans can think as well as chew gum." The magazine, a pet project of the...
Then destiny struck, in a footnote on the law of evidence which Adler wrote into his first book. A bright young man named Robert Maynard Hutchins, then acting dean of the Yale Law School, saw the footnote and asked Adler to come up to see him. Adler, who really knew...
When the work was two-thirds finished, Britannica got discouraged with the amount of money Adler was spending (about $25,000 a month) and called a halt. Adler started phoning desperately. He sent Hutchins around the flank to Britannica's bankers, wangled permission to finish the job with only...