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Again, Robert Maynard Hutchins, youthful and revolutionary president of the University of Chicago, breaks the ice for an innovation among privately endowed institutions. This time is the announcement that hereafter freshmen entrants at the Midway will not be subjected to entrance examinations. He said, in addressing a group of Kansas City high school students...
Year ago young President Robert Maynard Hutchins of the University of Chicago startled U. S. educators by announcing a drastic revision of Chicago's system. Freshmen would enter a college where attendance at lectures was optional, study requirements up to the student, one comprehensive examination given him-usually after two years, although it could be taken earlier or later. From the college a student would pass into one of four university divisions to specialize for his degree (TIME, Dec. 1, 1930). When the system was put into operation last autumn many faculty members looked forward...
...only 39. Like her diplomatist husband. Harold Xicolson. she is of the quiet and well-mannered school, in the best tradition of English life & letters, a member of the gently brilliant Bloomsbury group that includes her good friends Virginia Woolf. Lytton Strachey, E. M. 1-orster. John Maynard Keynes. Knole Castle, her birthplace and the home of her ancestors, is one of the most celebrated houses in England, has 365 rooms, more years than (hat. When she is in England. Authoress Sackville-West lives with her husband and two sons at "Seven-oaks," near Knole Castle...
...were proposing. The May report suggested, among other things, a drastic trimming of military, school and police salary budgets, and a 20% reduction in the Dole. Any tinkering of the Dole would be suicide for the Laborites, might be more than even the Conservatives could tackle. Commented Economist John Maynard Keynes in The New Statesman & Nation...
Young President Robert Maynard...