Word: maynard
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...begin reading them too. "He broadly hinted," Hutchins said later, "that the president of an educational institution ought to have some education. For two years we discussed these matters, and then, at the age of 32, my education began in earnest." The Order of Goods. The education of Robert Maynard Hutchins parallelled and sped a slower re-education of the U.S. itself. Confronted by vast problems and vaster confusions which burgeoned after World War II, the U.S. lived face to face with a gnawing question: How can Western civilization, with all its mastery of production, science and the material world...
...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...
...junior election resulted in a second place tie between Donald M. Maynard '51 and Mitchell T. Rabkin '51, making a run off necessary today. The tie postponed the first meeting of the new committee, scheduled for last night...
...professors of the "dismal science" have always scotched this sunny Stevenson couplet. To such economists as Thomas Robert Malthus and John Stuart Mill in the 19th Century and John Maynard Keynes in the 20th, the world did not seem so full. Any economic system, said the Mill school, would either become static or it would fail to provide for its own. Lesser Cassandras, including New Dealers, have foretold the depletion of the world's oil and coal reserves, the exhaustion of soils, have pronounced the U.S. economy to be "mature," i.e., incapable of further expansion. Most of these experts...
Under the faculty advisership of Albert S. Coolidge '15, lecturer in Chemistry, the group next year will present a series of lectures and discussion meetings to air current problems in social economics. A trip to the cooperative stores in Maynard. Massachusetts and correspondence with foreign sympathists are also on the 1949 program...