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President Conant and Robert M. Hutchins, Chancellor of the University of Chicago failed to agree, last night, on the "functions of a modern university." The pair spoke at a symposium in Buffalo, New York sponsored by the State University of New York.
Hutchins objected. He said universities had already absorbed an "array of vocational schools of incredible variety and insignificance' and should concentrate on formulating answers to great general questions such as the place of the United States in world affairs, the relation of church and state, or the responsibility of the...
Hutchins wanted to rid universities of any sort of specialization. He said it made universities "mere housing projects for men pursuing unrelated studies without the needful intercommunication."
Washington, D. C.: December 31, William T. Lesh '31, Securities and Exchange Commission; Western Michigan (Grand Rapids): Lee M. Hutchins '46, 38 Oak Street; Charleston, West Virginia: Frank R. Lyon, Jr., 1601 Kanawha Valley Building, and Worcester: Chester W. Cook '19, 75 Park Avenue.
Stung by this and the fire-the-coach cries of alumni like ex-Congressman Ham Fish ('10), sometime All-America tackle, Bill Bingham last week announced his personal ideas about the course Harvard football should take: no more intersectional games, no more games outside the Ivy League. Cracked Chicago...