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Otherwise, there were the usual conferences and brief interviews; and as always, the stack of "reading-for-tonight" papers on the floor mounted to the toppling point. At 50, Robert Hutchins was slightly mellower in manner. But he could still get excited-now puffing a Fatima and pacing about, now...
"A Real School." By Hutchins' own provocative standards, Chicago was. Anyone else might have been given pause by the fact that such universities as Harvard, Yale, Columbia and California, not to mention Oxford, Cambridge and the Sorbonne, also existed. Actually, Chicago had been jostling about among the first four...
In a way, Robert Maynard Hutchins was a complete anomaly in such a place. It was true that the trustees wanted a young man with ideas, but they hardly expected him to advocate a reversal of everything the university had seemed to stand for. To them, he was simply the...
In his baggy Brooks Brothers suits and gay cravats, he could charm Chicago hostesses when he wanted to. But he was also irrepressibly flip. Asked what he thought of Yale, he replied: "Compared to Chicago, Yale is a boy's finishing school." Asked what he thought of Chicago, he...
Past v. Present. As time passed, the Chicago Fight earned the university various tags-"Chicago Thomism," "Aristotelianism on the Midway," the "Return to the Middle Ages." Some professors, including Gideonse and George Mead, head of the philosophy department, resigned. One hundred and nineteen members of the academic senate signed a...