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...October issue of Harpers Magazine, Chicago University's President Robert Maynard Hutchins voices a sincere outcry against those influences in American life which combine to produce "confusion in higher education". "The state of the nation determines the state of education," says President Hutchins, "but how can we hope to improve the state of the nation? Only through education." This vicious circle, the writer maintains, can only be broken if some institutions can be strong enough to show the people what the higher learning...
...darker mood, at University of Chicago youthful President Robert Maynard Hutchins gloomed: "The world seems to be rushing toward the destruction of liberty of conscience, of worship, of speech, and of thought. . . . This tendency . . . will not be without its effects in our own country. Already we see signs of the growth of bigotry and repression. . . . We see battle lines drawn that may determine the fate of our form of government, and of our generation...
...MAYNARD OWEN WILLIAMS...
Profitless Oil. Unlike Britain, the U. S. has only a few communities cooperatively self-contained, notably Maynard, Mass., where co-ops can furnish nearly all consumer needs. There are two small co-op mail-order houses. Co-operation has been adapted to rural telephones, power plants, personal loans (credit unions), groceries, trucking, insurance, undertaking. But except for farm supplies the most conspicuous success has been with oil & gas. Co-op gas stations have multiplied two-thousand-fold since the first was founded in Cottonwood, Minn...
Harvard University (Cambridge, Mass.) President Isaiah Bowman of Johns Hopkins University LL.D. President Thomas Sovereign Gates of the University of Pennsylvania. .. .LL.D. President William Edwin Hall of the Boys' Club Federation of America. . .M.A. President Robert Maynard Hutchins of the University of Chicago LL.D. President Frank Baldwin Jewett of Bell Telephone Laboratories D.Sc. Historian Samuel Eliot Morison. .. .Litt.D. Historian George Macauley Trevelyan.Litt...