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The pot roast at lunch was tender and tasty, but for all the. effect it had on Robert Maynard Hutchins, it might have been fire & brimstone. At the annual National Conference of U.S. Editorial Writers in Louisville, Ky. last week, the University of Chicago's chancellor gave the banqueting...
Said Hutchins: "I think you are teachers. I did not say you were good teachers . . . The argument that you must be good or you wouldn't have readers is ... like telling the disgusted radio listener that he can turn to three other stations and hear . . . programs just as bad...
By 1943, practically everybody had heard about the Great Books, but hardly anybody seemed to be reading them. Only 167 adults had signed up for the study groups started by the University of Chicago. Then in 1947 Chancellor Robert M. Hutchins invited Businessman Lynn A. Williams Jr. to try selling...
Not many people have managed to wade through the six-volume, 160,000-word report of Harry Truman's Commission on Higher Education. One who has is Robert Maynard Hutchins, chancellor of the University of Chicago. His comments, published in last week's Saturday Review of Literature, were...
Hutchins gave approving pats on the head to the report's attacks on specialization and on racial, religious and economic discrimination in higher education. But for its "confusion" and its literary style (". . . reads like a Fourth-of-July oration in pedaguese . . . skirts the edge of illiteracy") Hutchins had only...