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Meanwhile, beyond the Midway, other educators chimed in with protests. To John Dewey, the split between Hutchins and himself was "the cleft that now marks every phase and aspect of philosophy. It presents the difference between an outlook that goes to the past for instruction and for guidance, and one...
To Hutchins, the greatest need of the present was a broad, unified education that would train men to think importantly alone, but also to talk wisely together. For 20 years, that has been his mission at Chicago.
"You can't do it," an assistant exclaimed when Hutchins first explained his plan.
Hutchins was sure that he could. Chicago set up a college that was to give a basic liberal education by the end of the sophomore year. Students who wanted to specialize thereafter could do so in the university. Instead of a hodgepodge of electives, there were only four main course...
The notion of awarding a B.A. after sophomore year scandalized the rest of the educational profession. On the University of Wisconsin campus the Chicago B.A. was called the Bastard of Arts. The Association of American Colleges and the American Association of University Women "deplored" it. It was, recalls Hutchins, "an...