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In some respects all Yalemen are Johnny Appleseeds at heart, dedicated to the proposition that one does not earn one's "Y in life" just for oneself alone. They might, be as different as RFC Director W. Stuart Symington and Columnist Max Lerner, both '23, or as bustling...
In the last 40 years, the number of U.S. daily newspapers has dropped from 2,600 to 1,772. As a result, the number of "monopoly cities" (i.e., cities with no competitive dailies) has risen to a startling 1,300. Is this bad for journalism? Many newsmen, and such outside...
Last week, after four months of combing through the alphabet, the trustees announced that they had stopped at the letter K. The man they picked, out of 641 candidates proposed: Lawrence Alpheus Kimpton, 40, a University of Chicago vice president and a big, shaggy, good-humored man whom Hutchins once...
How to Say No. In 1947 Kimpton left Chicago to become dean of students at Stanford. There he stayed for three years, a gregarious, wisecracking lion of campus parties, a lucid, articulate teacher of a course in Kant. In & out of class he plugged the Hutchins line so successfully that...
As to what sort of line he would follow as chancellor of Chicago, Kimpton would give only a philosopher's hint last week. "I am not a Thomist," said he. "You might call me a neo-Kantian." Thomist or not, Kimpton seemed as good a successor to Hutchins as...