Word: manly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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What should be the content of education? Hutchins' answer was simple: there is a kind of knowledge that transcends time & place; there are absolute values such as Truth and Justice, and they can be found by modern man, especially by studying what the great minds of the past had to say about the constant problems of mankind. The purpose of education, he held, is to train minds to be free, not chaotic, and free "because they can understand the order of goods and can achieve them in that order...
...Robert Maynard Hutchins was a complete anomaly in such a place. It was true that the trustees wanted a young man with ideas, but they hardly expected him to advocate a reversal of everything the university had seemed to stand for. To them, he was simply the extraordinary young man who had been made acting dean of the Yale Law School at 28 and had done so well that Yale made him full dean...
...Simply "Nuts." He was a brilliant man who could read a page at a glance and had a passion for German novels. He was also a man in a hurry, and his letters -"Dear Flash: I do. Sincerely yours ...; Dear Reuben: i. No. Ever yours . . .; Dear The Central Administration: By God I am. Sincerely yours . . ."-added to the legend. "Stop bothering me," he would scribble across a memo. More often his comment would be a simple "nuts...
...hipped fullback who was as good as they come (his coach rates him better than the great Bill Dudley, Virginia's wonder boy of nearly a decade ago), but in topflight 1949 football individual stars are as out of style as the scoreless tie and the "60-minute man...
...Waldorf's system has grown a "you-get-'em, we'll-hold-'em" alliance between the defensive and offensive units that prompted Cal's Safety Man Carl Van Heuit to apologize to the offense after a 35-21 victory over U.C.L.A. Never before, with platoons rushing in & out of the fray, had football been so akin to modern war and its specialists so dependent on G.H.Q...