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Last week alumni sat down to dinners in Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco., Minneapolis, Detroit, Princeton and New Haven to celebrate the 80th anniversary of their remarkable preparatory school. In Chicago they heard the school highly praised by University of Chicago's hard- to-please President Robert Maynard Hutchins. Little Lake Forest Academy (180 students), in a swank Chicago suburb, is remarkable not for its plant (valued at only $750,000) or ivied tradition (although it is one of the oldest prep schools in the Midwest) but for its long, angular headmaster, John Wayne ("Big Dick") Richards. Major reason...
...local laborite groups patterned upon New York's American Labor Party. By an infinitesimal margin the convention downed Leader Thomas' proposal that Socialists oppose the nomination but not necessarily the election of "capitalist" candidates on labor party tickets. It followed University of Chicago's Economist Maynard Kreuger in permitting affiliation with other groups only on condition that Socialists oppose any capitalist candidate endorsed by their nominal allies. Since few aggressive bodies would welcome this sort of allegiance, the Socialists thus retained not only their integrity but their status as negligible quantities in next fall's Congressional...
...month The Beacon had as advisers such leading Chicago lights as Professor Paul Howard Douglas. University of Chicago economist, and Charles P. Schwartz. of the Chicago Plan Commission. Others, like Edwin L. Kuh Jr., a director of Chicago's Board of Trade, and President Robert Maynard Hutchins of the University of Chicago, gave cash to keep The Beacon burning. Getting such hard-hitting liberals as Harold L. Ickes and Robert Marion La Follette to write for him, Factotum Harris soon found himself free to do an editor's job. His most constant local target was Chicago...
...JOHN MAYNARD KNIGHT...
...fill Charles Judd's shoes posed a pretty problem for University of Chicago's unorthodox young president, Robert Maynard Hutchins. who has been busy the past year attacking progressive education. Last week, still incorrigibly unorthodox. Bob Hutchins gave the job to the fair-haired boy of progressive educators, Ralph Winfred Tyler...