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...headed the manufacturing division, was forced out in a squabble that made headlines (TIME, Feb. 14, 1938) and Hughston Maynard McBain took over...
President Robert Maynard Hutchins of the University of Chicago, writing in today's issue of the Saturday Evening Post, claims that Harvard is giving a "bad example" to the country by holding pre-season football practice. He states that this evil is the result of having hard games at the beginning of the season, and that in turn these early games are inspired by a desire to secure larger attendance...
Most radical and classical is an experiment in U.S. higher education being conducted at little St. John's College (Annapolis, Md.). St. John's is trying a plan advocated by University of Chicago's President Robert Maynard Hutchins, who is also chairman of St. John's governing board. Mr. Hutchins' theory is that the best way to learn to think is to study how great thinkers thought. His plan for a college education: reading and discussing the 100 greatest books of the past...
Conceited, sure of his own ideas, fond of his own voice, he reads aloud everything he writes, wakes up friends to recite his poetry over the telephone. Impudent, he has mercilessly ridiculed the ideas of his superior, Chicago's metaphysical young President Robert Maynard Hutchins, made sport of his colleagues in the Legislature by speaking in allegories, in one of which Boss Kelly figured as a rat, Chicago's Health Commissioner Herman Bundesen as a mosquito. When an opponent praised him for his eloquence, he retorted: "Just liquid vowels." Ambitious, he won a big radio audience outside Illinois...
...education. The group was the National Education Association's Educational Policies Commission. The report* was written by fat-jowled. conservative Professor George Drayton Strayer of Columbia's Teachers College. Prime argument for this plan, which has long been championed by University of Chicago's President Robert Maynard Hutchins, is economic: it neatly disposes of the generation of youths between 16 and 20, who once went to work but today are at loose-ends, unable to get a job and not keen for college...