Word: maynard
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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RADICALISM HELD A PATRIOTIC NEED Meantime in Chicago the year's best-publicized academic Red scare, having run up against a combination of scorn and spunk named Robert Maynard Hutchins, ignominiously collapsed. When Drugman Charles R. Walgreen withdrew his niece from University of Chicago, clamoring that the campus was rampant with Communism, President Hutchins angrily refused to dignify his vaporings with a public investigation (TIME, April 22). Only 75 of the University's 7,500 full-time students belonged to its two pinko student organizations.* But Drugman Walgreen got his hearing anyway, before the Illinois Senate...
...grad" has kept the four-year college course sacrosanct. But educators see a natural break between sophomore and junior years. Up to that point in most topflight colleges the work is preponderantly general; beyond that point it is preponderantly specialized. At the University of Chicago, youthful President Robert Maynard Hutchins has led the way by splitting his college in two, calling the upper half "Divisions...
...Twelve days younger than Robert Maynard Hutching who became president of the University of Chicago...
...them among pictures of Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, a lion, and a motto by Editor George Horace Lorimer (Saturday Evening Post), talked darkly of Reds and Sedition. As soon as they had gone he called his secretary, dictated a letter to the University's able young President Robert Maynard Hutchins: "With regret, I am having my niece. Miss Lucille Norton, discontinue her studies at the University of Chicago. I am unwilling to have her absorb the Communistic influences to which she is so insidiously exposed...
HARVARD TUFTS Howard, g. g., Redshaw Whittemore, c.p, c.p., Maynard Warwick, p. p., Rendall Witherspoon, ld, ld., Kaup Duffy, 2d. 2d., Poitras Maddux, c. c., Duncan Murphy, 2a. 2a, Boyd Bosworth, la. la., Goodwin Edmands, o.h. o.h., Bracken England. i.h. i.h. Mabel...