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Just for a laugh, one day last month, the University of Chicago's student paper, the Maroon, put out a gag issue with the banner headline: HUTCHINS OUT! A few days later, Chancellor Robert Maynard Hutchins bumped into the Maroon's editor on the street. "You know," said...
Robert Hutchins was talking more closely to events than the Maroon's editor suspected. Though only two or three of his trustees knew it, he had actually been thinking for the past six weeks of handing in his resignation. His old friend Paul Hoffman had asked him to become...
No One Ready. The news stunned the campus. The board of trustees, summoned to a special meeting, wanted to know whether Hutchins might not change his mind. At the same time, the council of the university academic senate passed a resolution urging-him to reconsider. As Robert Hutchins had predicted...
In 21 years, Chicago had grown used to accepting the Hutchins myth as a permanent part of the university campus. He had come to the Midway at 30, the Boy Wonder who seemed to want to revolutionize U.S. higher education all by himself. He had stirred up storms on his...
Start with the A's. As a director of the Ford Foundation, Hutchins' voice would not be lost. Last week, while his trustees began the search for a successor ("We'll just start with the A's in Who's Who," sighed Chairman Laird Bell...