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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...
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...
Since then, his career has been a happy blend of philosophy and administration. He first came to Chicago in 1943 after serving as head of a small college at Deep Springs, Calif., and dean of the college of liberal arts at the University of Kansas City. Kimpton's first Chicago job: to run the sprawling wartime Metallurgy Project which the university operated for the Manhattan District. He did it so well, and made so many friends in the process, that he quickly rose through a succession of posts-dean of students and professor of philosophy, dean of the faculties...
...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...