Word: kimpton
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Lawrence A. Kimpton, chancellor of the University of Chicago, last week compared aspects of the university which he heads to Harvard and found Chicago inferior. In a speech which created an uproar on the Chicago campus, the recently-installed Kimpton said specifically that "undergraduate life at Harvard is better rounded than at Chicago...
...Kimpton, giving an informal talk before a group of students, said that Chicago undergraduates are "over-loaded" with course work, and that they should have more time for extra-curricular activities. It was in this context which he mentioned Harvard...
President Conant, speaking on NBC's University of Chicago Round Table, analyzed the threats to the integrity and independence of universities today as being essentially financial. The program, re-broadcast yesterday by the Lowell Institute, was taken from speeches at last week's inauguration of Lawrence A. Kimpton as the new Chancellor of the University of Chicago...
...Kimpton left Chicago to become dean of students at Stanford. There he stayed for three years, a gregarious, wisecracking lion of campus parties, a lucid, articulate teacher of a course in Kant. In & out of class he plugged the Hutchins line so successfully that Stanford next fall is revamping its rigid curriculum to permit bright students to push ahead into advanced study. When Hutchins persuaded him to return to Chicago as vice president in charge of university development, Stanford students howled in protest. The Stanford Daily put out a special issue dedicated to him. The graduating class made...
...what sort of line he would follow as chancellor of Chicago, Kimpton would give only a philosopher's hint last week. "I am not a Thomist," said he. "You might call me a neo-Kantian." Thomist or not, Kimpton seemed as good a successor to Hutchins as any the trustees would ever have found in the 3,200 pages of Who's Who. Explained one trustee: "He knows how to say no, and that's about three-fourths of the job of being chancellor...