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...ROBERT MAYNARD HUTCHINS: DOCTOR OF LAWS, of Chicago, President of the University of Chicago since 1929. "A daring educational administrator whose keen weapons from the armory of the past out deep into the academic complacency of the present...
...Yale's most celebrated pre-War graduates was aware of the Law School only because one of its students was on his water polo team. Under Deans Thomas Walter Swan (1916-27) and Robert Maynard Hutchins (1927-30), the Yale Law School enjoyed its Angellic renaissance. Then Milton Winternitz and Robert Hutchins collaborated on the Institute of Human Relations, dedicated ambitiously to the general study of human behavior, a unique co-operative research centre that unites the best of Yale's postgraduate brains...
Ever since Robert Maynard Hutchins became president of big University of Chicago in 1929, he has enjoyed himself tremendously. He reduced the term of Chicago's undergraduate course from four years to whatever length of time a clever student might need to lope through it, ignored critics outside the University, passionately upheld the banner of academic freedom. Many a Chicago teacher, however, has been disconcerted by "Bob" Hutchins' exuberance, his insistence that colleges should present their students with "clear and distinct ideas...
...Cornell Professors Leonard Amby Maynard, 49, Clive Maine McCay, 38, and Sydney Arthur Asdell, 38, will direct the research. All are learned, industrious biochemists. None is a doctor of medicine qualified to apply his findings to the physiology of human beings. The trio hope to validate "the theory that the characteristics of youth can be retained . . . by special diets." This they expect to prove by feeding mature rats a great variety of foods...
...judges, Funnyman Cantor, who never got beyond the seventh grade himself, had lined up four famed U. S. college presidents. University of Chicago's Robert Maynard Hutchins, Stanford's Ray Lyman Wilbur, Vassar's Henry Noble MacCracken, College of the City of New York's Frederick Bertrand Robinson...