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Like Robert Maynard Hutchins, 42, strapping, six-foot-two Dr. William Harold Cowley, 41, was a precocious youngster in U. S. education. Hutchins, while still a Yale student (Law, '25), was Secretary of the University. Cowley, while still a Dartmouth ('24) undergraduate, conducted a successful campaign to reorganize the college's curriculum. Hutchins became president of the University of Chicago at 30. Cowley had a varied career as a newspaperman, personnel consultant and professor of psychology at Ohio State University, at 39 became president of high-ranking little Hamilton College (TIME, June...
...Monk and No Monastery. Dr. Carlson's most distinguished opponent is Chicago's President Robert Maynard Hutchins, who tends to minimize the value of a scientific education. "Three hundred years ago said Ajax recently. "Hutchins vould haf been a monk in a monastery. I don't belief in retreating from de vorld. I belief in staying in it and mastering...
...college president has said anything that the majority of undergraduates could accept without a struggle. So it was something of a shock that last Thursday the heads of two leading American universities came out with eminently sensible statements that are hard to pick a quarrel with. Chicago's Robert Maynard Hutchins, in a radio address, warned that the nation "is about to commit suicide" by joining the European conflict, and that President Roosevelt is sliding dangerously close to active intervention. Harvard's Conant, who is far from agreeing with his colleague on the question of going to war, warned...
...eminent, conservative Republican lawyers - State Senator Frederic R. Coudert Jr., 42, and onetime New York City Corporation Counsel Paul Windels. Mr. Windels went to work in Brooklyn College, was warmly welcomed by its tall, tweedy president, Harry D. Gideonse (pronounced Gideons), onetime critic and foe of President Robert Maynard Hutchins at University of Chicago (TIME, June 13, 1938). Mr. Gideonse took charge of Brooklyn College last year, has bickered with its leftist students and professors ever since. One of their complaints: Mr. Gideonse once entered a restaurant through a picket line...
After arguing all evening against Novelist Thomas Mann's and Educator Robert Maynard Hutchins' view that Chicago was a city of crime, stocky, curly-headed Lloyd Downs Lewis, Chicago Daily News sports editor, drama critic, historian (Chicago-The History of Its Reputation), bade Host Hutchins goodnight, departed. In the street Editor Lewis & wife met three robbers, surrendered $8 cash, a mink coat, $4,350 worth of jewelry. Returning to the house, he announced ruefully: "I take back everything...