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...best interests of the American people." The two Harvard students who urged this point of view were G.F. Oest '33 and R.M. Alt '32. The negative side of the question was presented by George Copeland and Hicks Epton, both law students in the University of Oklahoma. Professor N.C. Maynard of Tufts College made the opening speech and was presiding officer during the debate...
...English Liberals, of whom there used to be a great many, used to read the famed weekly Nation & Athenaeum. It reached its height of influence under the editorship of the late Henry William Massingham. After his death it declined steadily, despite the efforts of John Maynard Keynes and Arnold Rowntree who took it in hand. Last week the few remaining Liberal readers lost their paper to the New Statesman, brilliant Laborite weekly, with which it was merged. Title of the combined magazines is the New Statesman & Nation; editor is Kingsley Martin Young, economist, onetime leader writer on the Manchester Guardian...
Said Dean Mendell: "The initiative and responsibility for results is placed more squarely on the student than in the past." But it is in no way so forthright as Chicago's change, announced last November (TIME, Dec. 1) by Yale's prodigy, young President Robert Maynard Hutchins of the University of Chicago. And Dean Jones's challenge still holds: the Yale student still must take Latin or Greek to get his A. B. degree...
...flighty theorist is 31-year-old President Robert Maynard Hutchins of the University of Chicago. No flight of fancy was his speech to southern pedagogs three weeks ago at Chapel Hill, N. C. on a "University of Utopia" where "hours and residence requirements as criteria for winning college degrees" would be scrapped (TIME, Nov. 10). President Hutchins was hinting at, preparing pedagogs for the formal announcement of something which he and his predecessor Dr. Max Mason and the Chicago faculty had discussed for several years...
Assembled at Chapel Hill last week was the third annual Southern Conference on Education, guests of the University of North Carolina. Most of the pedagogs at the gathering were Southerners, but young President Robert Maynard Hutchins of the University of Chicago made the pithiest point, in his discussion of "Utopia University." There, he said, "Hours and residence requirements as criteria for winning college degrees and such time-honored titles as graduate school and junior and senior college" would be supplanted by an institution of higher learning divided into the professional schools and four divisions in art: humanities, social sciences, physical...