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...second Wunderkind arrived in 1929. Robert Maynard Hutchins came to the university at the age of 30, also from Yale where he had been dean of the law school. Like Harper, he could not resist the chance to put his ideas into practice. During his 22 years at Chicago, Hutchins developed his philosophy of education into the "Chicago plan" which focused on the undergraduate...
...campaign talk about the need to spur the economy's growth, he was at first much less adventuresome and more conservative than his economists. He was determined to balance the budget and mighty reluctant to try the deficit-spending theories of the late John Maynard Keynes. It took Heller and his activist aides almost two years and 300 memos to convince Kennedy of the Keynesian notion that both economic growth and Government income would be increased...
...most amazing part of Anderson and Lithgow's proposal was their method for choosing the first new executive committee. They simply suggested that, together with Laura Esterman '66 and David Maynard '67, they would become the executive committee. This, understandably enough, aroused the fury of many HDC members...
Chapman, however, liked the idea, even though he did suggest that a fifth person be admitted into the new body: Timothy S. Mayer '66, president of Harvard G&S. Chapman thought this would make the committee more representative of all undergraduates interested in Harvard theatre. Anderson, Lithgow, Maynard, and Miss Esterman concurred...
...been said that we are all Keynesians now," writes Robert Lekachman, borrowing the heading of TIME'S cover story (Dec. 31) on the late John Maynard Keynes. Now that Keynes has been embraced by politicians and popularized by journalists, the academicians are eager to assess again the ideas of the 20th century's most influential economist. Lekachman, head of the economics department at the State University of New York at Stony Brook, is the first American to analyze at book length Keynes's life and work and the impact of his thinking on contemporary times...