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"Bob Hutchins and I disagree on several things, but someone overdramatized our differences about the use of man's leisure," was the comment of President Conant on the press report of last week's sessions at Princeton. "In fact, he had left the day before I spoke."
"Higher snobbery was the answer President Conant had for the educational philosophy of Chancellor Robert M, Hutchins of Chicago University, at Princeton's sessions on "the Humanistic Tradition in the Century Ahead," as reported by the Associated Press Saturday.
Hutchins had told the assembly of scholars, "If we are not all killed in the next few years (of the atomic age) we will all be bored to death. The Universities will be obsolete if they do not grasp the opportunities to make leisure time worthwhile.
As of the Class of 1943: Malcolm Magoun Ferguson, Richmond Nelson Hutchins, Louis Gerald-Varet Hyde, Carl Hudson Imlay, Charles William Mulcahy Jr., Ralph Eugene Snyder, Oliver Rowland Blanchard Stalter.
The new Great Books set will include introductory essays by Hutchins, Mortimer Adler, Carl Van Doren, Stringfellow Barr, plus a cross-index of the world's great ideas and idea-men. An entire building on the Chicago campus is filled with ripe scholars and raw materials for this index...