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From the University of Chicago and elsewhere among the fellow spirits of Robert Maynard Hutchins has come a steady attack on the clutter of "undisciplined" schools and "practical" courses sprung up in Dewey's name, a steady insistence that U.S. education return to the fundamental wisdom of the "best books...
Last month Chicago's President Robert Maynard Hutchins threw up the window to let a little fresh air into that system, threw out the old-style high-school credit requirements. He substituted a series of quizzes to test the students' actual knowledge and ability to learn. The tests take more than 13 hours, cover the humanities, the social sciences, the physical sciences and English. Cried President Hutchins: "Educational bookkeeping" has been abolished. Educators wondered...
...Stepanov, Iran's Ebtehaj. No one knew last week how they would line up; most of the preliminary skirmishing between the British and the Americans in the Battle of the Blueprints has taken place under cover. The first open blow was struck last spring by John Maynard Keynes, First Baron Tilton, with a proposal that in effect would give the British dominance in world currency arrangements. The second was a counterproposal by Harry D. White for the U.S. Treasury, giving the U.S. the upper hand through its vast hoard of gold...
...that crassly. The President has not named anyone he would like to see get the Democratic nomination and Mr. Dewey would seem not to know that there is an election this year. I at least have named the man I would like .to see get the Socialist nomination-Maynard C. Krueger of Chicago...
Whereupon Maynard Krueger promptly nominated and the 229 delegates unanimously named Norman Thomas to head their ticket for the fifth consecutive time. Candidate Thomas, a real draftee, immediately got off an acceptance speech over the Blue Network: "If we persist along the road on which the Roosevelt Administration has planted its feet, we shall be hurled into a third world war incomparably more dangerous for us than that which we now endure...