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Highlights of his TNEC presentation (which earned him a fan letter from John Maynard Keynes) were his demonstrations that...
...fill one of the biggest jobs in U. S. education, the presidency of Brooklyn College-(salary: $15,000), New York City's Board of Higher Education elected Economics Professor Harry David Gideonse, renowned opponent of University of Chicago's President Robert Maynard Hutchins' education theories. Gideonse last year quit Chicago, has since taught at Columbia's Barnard College...
...educational prestige among U. S. private universities are Harvard and Chicago. Both have added to their reputation since they got their present presidents, Chicago its Boy Wonder Robert Maynard Hutchins in 1929, Harvard its Chemist James Bryant Conant in 1933. Rawboned President Conant, now 46, has proved a cautious, canny administrator. Arriving when Harvard was becoming stodgy and losing renowned old professors, Conant hired brilliant young teachers, jabbed a hypodermic into stodgy places, but made no basic change in the Harvard system. President Hutchins, now 40, is impatient with all existing systems. Smart, handsome, charming, a crack money raiser, Hutchins...
Biggest alumni school was at University of Chicago, where 3,500 alumni began an eight-day term of lectures, discussions and movies, interspersed with the usual dinners, excursions and shenanigans. Chicago's alumni school, whose purpose is not to stuff but to stimulate, had as lecturers President Robert Maynard Hutchins, U. S. Assistant Attorney General Thurman Arnold, NLRB's Chairman J. Warren Madden, University professors. Alumni heard lectures on What Is Progressive Education? Can Man Make Good? What Can We Expect from the New Pope...
...made another stab at ideological control of Senator O'Mahoney's Monopoly Committee. He appeared at its investment bank hearings to tell how to fix up the capital market. Erudite, as usual, he backed up his remarks by allusions to economic bigwigs like England's John Maynard Keynes, Brookings Institution's Harold Glenn Moulton. His program took over three much-hashed New Deal recovery inducers, pronounced them not-radical, stamped them with the Berle trademark...