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A blue bus arrived from downtown and a lot of important-looking people got out. You couldn't miss tall, grey Robert Maynard Hutchins in a neat-fitting brown top coat and pearl grey Homburg. The important people mounted the platform and the photographers started taking pictures.
Hutchins looked around. "Where's Fermi?" he called. Several underlings started yelling for Fermi. He was standing in the dirty snow talking about the atom. I asked him how it was five years ago. He said shyly: "Well, it was awfully cold, and there was a wind blowing." I...
Down the river at marbled M.I.T. they follow the Hutchins line on major sports, but minor ones still exist--if in an undernourished condition. Coach James MacDonald's Varsity soccer team meets the fattest of the Engineers' underemphasized athletic squads at M.I.T. this afternoon in the fond hope that the...
"As one who has become involved with most of the books on Mr. Hutchins' Book-of-the-2,000-Years-Club, I would say that the kind of discussion [in the Great Books groups] is much different from the impression given. In a discussion whose single dominant character is...
Taylor conceded that "in the work of the past [there are] clues for dealing with the present" but argued that "an exclusive concern [with] the classical curriculum has failed in the past and will fail today. ... It may be that education is not a strong enough social tool to maintain...