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Twelve leading American educators have sharply attacked premature consideration of compulsory military training, in an open letter to President Roosevelt made public this week. Headed by President Conant, Princeton's President Harold W. Dodds, and Robert Maynard Hutchins of the University of Chicago, the group contended that "military training offers no real solution to national problems of education, health, or responsible citizenship in a free society...
...Such a situation would be detected before long by the general public and the reaction against our colleges might be severe indeed." (Other educators have expressed fears. President Robert Maynard Hutchins, of the University of Chicago, has warned of "educational hoboes"--veterans, unable to get jobs, who will be offered a chance to live at Government expense simply by going to school. In an article in Collier's magazine. Hutchins said, "Educational institutions, as the big-time football racket shows cannot resist money." "The GI Bill of Rights gives them a chance to get more money than they have ever...
...Educational Hobos?" A recent Army survey indicated that approximately 650,000 servicemen expect to go to college after they are discharged. But even this bonanza may not be an unmixed blessing. University of Chicago's tart President Robert Maynard Hutchins voiced his fears in a Collier's article last fortnight. Excerpts...
...University of Chicago's President Robert Maynard Hutchins is an apostle of rooted culture and a longtime foe of commercialism in the cloisters. Nevertheless, in his annual report last week President Hutchins noted (with nary a noticeable wince) that the University had accepted from the National Restaurant Association $67,000 for research in restaurant management and related fields...
...University of Chicago's President Robert Maynard Hutchins resigned last week from his university's faculty (Quadrangle) club, and other members were forming their battle lines along the Midway. Reason: for the first time in years, the Quadrangle Club had blackballed a candidate...