Word: kimpton
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Levi has thus been intimately involved in Chicago's traumatic leadership shifts: the academic brilliance and financial decline under Robert Hutchins, whom Levi admired; the civic-minded fight to rebuild crime-ridden slums surrounding the university under Lawrence Kimpton; the drive to regain academic stature and financial stability under Beadle. Levi last week left no doubt about what he will emphasize. Said he: "To be a great and exciting university requires, above all, a great faculty...
...principal reason for the rapid decline in private higher education that you so vividly describe in your Kingman Brewster cover story [June 23] was expressed with unusual candor in 1959 by then University of Chicago Chancellor Lawrence Kimpton, speaking to state university administrators: "To put it in the crassest terms possible-and I know this will offend many of the brotherhood-it is hard to market a product at a fair price when down the street someone is giving it away." The decline of private education is bound to accelerate unless something is done about this...
When the University of Chicago's Chancellor Lawrence A. Kimpton submitted his resignation last March, a mighty talent hunt gripped the Midway. Out went letters to 60,000 old grads, asking for suggestions. Such academic statesmen as James B. Conant were consulted. Two committees pondered 375 possible Kimpton successors, including Adlai Stevenson, Richard Nixon, and Harvard's Dean McGeorge Bundy. The debate led to a decision that Chicago needed neither a big name nor an experienced academic administrator, but rather, as Trustee Chairman Glen A. Lloyd put it, "a top scholar in his own right"-a bright light...
...fell to Chancellor Kimpton, now a Standard Oil (Indiana) executive, to spend his nine-year reign tidying up Chicago after the 21-year typhoon of Idealist Robert Maynard Hutchins. He threw out some of Hutchins' more wildly experimental courses, raised sagging undergraduate enrollment to 2,100, nearly doubled endowment to $139.3 million. But though Kimpton put Chicago in what he felt was working order, some old grads feel that it still needs the kind of lively teachers who filled it in the heady Hutchins...
...Kimpton feels that his predecessors lingered long after they did their useful work: "The head of a university is analogous to the head of a political organization. At some point he wears out his powers of persuasion." The next chancellor, Kimpton admits, will need to persuade good teachers to come to Chicago. The faculty, particularly in the humanities, is Kimpton's weakest legacy: "I think there's less interest in the humanities than at any time in American history...