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British Economist John Maynard Keynes, lecturing in Manhattan on Depression, remarked: "There is nothing President Hoover could do that an earthquake couldn't do better...
...Robert Maynard Hutchins, president of the University of Chicago, son of Berea's President William James Hutchins . . . LL.D...
Your admirable account of Walter Lippmann's life and spiritual difficulties (TIME, March 30) was most timely with all this pallid talk of liberalism going around. But didn't you overlook one of his most unique achievements? Didn't Lippmann discover John Maynard Keynes (Economic Consequences of Peace) for America? Wasn't it upon his advice that Harcourt, Brace & Co. published Keynes's book with a resultant sale far above anyone's expectations? And wasn't Mr. Keynes an intimate of Lytton Strachey? And wasn't that why Harcourt Brace got Strachey...
First professional school at the University of Chicago to be reconditioned under the plan announced last autumn (TIME, Dec. 1) by Chicago's young President Robert Maynard Hutchins will be the School of Commerce & Administration. Last week it announced that it has abolished course grades and credits, as the College Division has already done. Beginning next year it will institute four comprehensive examinations, which will correspond to the School's four major objectives. The four: 1) (to be taken during the first six months of the course) an examination in the physical and socio-economic environment of business...
...Robert Maynard Hutchins, formerly Dean of the Yale Law School, now president of the University of Chicago, has written on "The University of Utopia" for the spring issue of The Yale Review. In this article Dr. Hutchins considers the relation of higher education to the practical field of social problems, and, more particularly, its relation to our present crisis of business depression. Since among an educational people larger and larger taxes are being paid each year for the support of education, the question may well be asked whether it would not be better "to buy food with this money than...