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...teachers were out to gain the salary restorations that nearly every other major U. S. city has already made to teachers. They were out also to repair the butchery of the Chicago school system-denounced by such Titans in education as University of Chicago's President Robert Maynard Hutchins and Dean Charles Hubbard Judd -which has gained for Chicago's schools the reputation of being the poorest and most expensive in the U. S. Of the $52,000,000 budget this year, only $35,000,000 went for instruction. Struck down in the past few years have been...
...changed his mind, hustled back to Manhattan to teach full time at Columbia. A year later he idealistically resigned because President Nicholas Murray Butler appointed a new dean of the Law School without first consulting the faculty. Shortly afterwards at a party in Pelham he met famed Dean Robert Maynard Hutchins of Yale Law School. Next day Hutchins telephoned from New Haven, hired Bill Douglas to teach law at Yale. There he was director of bankruptcy studies, collaborated with the Department of Commerce in the same field, did so well that he achieved the topnotch berth of Sterling Professor...
President Robert Maynard Hutchins of big University of Chicago last week became a member of the Board of Visitors & Governors of little St. John's College in Annapolis, Md. That unconventional gesture was President Hutchins' way of showing that he is a good loser. For St. John's had just reached to take from under his nose, in the persons of President-elect Stringfellow Barr and Dean-elect Scott Buchanan, two educators whom Chicago drafted last year from the University of Virginia to help Educator Hutchins with his projected revival of the traditional liberal arts college course...
...Chicago) and William King Gregory (paleontologist of Columbia University and Manhattan's American Museum of Natural History). Since the last issue in 1932 three valued advisers died: Dr. Elihu Thomson, patriarch of General Electric Co.; Dr. Martin Dewey, onetime president of the American Dental Association, and President Maynard Shipley of the Science League of America. But Editor Katterfeld was happy to announce the acquisition of a new bigwig: the Carnegie Institution's Dr. Riddle...
University of Chicago's President Robert Maynard Hutchins also announced a notable gift last week. With an anonymous donor promising $275,000 for "research in American institutions" if someone would match it two for one, President Hutchins finally found a man willing to give him $550,000. He was Drugman Charles Rudolph Walgreen, who two years ago was so shocked by his niece Lucille Norton's breakfast-table talk about communism that he not only withdrew her from the University but provoked a sensational legislative investigation (TIME, April 22, 1935). Of the resulting Charles R. Walgreen Foundation...