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...this indignation was an eloquent undergraduate's reaction to the Tribune's Rev. John Evans, who, unique among U. S. religious editors because he often gets news, last week got on Page One with a story that a merger between the University of Chicago and Northwestern University was really going to happen...
...last June President Hutchins found himself in a train with Chicago's other president, an elderly man, Walter Dill Scott of Northwestern University. Both bound for Springfield, the State capital, they had four hours to compare notes on finance and other matters...
Later in the summer, it became known that committees (under Banker Melvin Traylor for Northwestern and Packer Harold H. Swift for Chicago) had been appointed to study merger...
...annoyance provoked by Newsman Evans indicated that the merger had progressed and that, probably, only the Tribune's kind of noise was likely to prevent it. Typical Tribune scare: that the merger would enable the University of Chicago to avoid $300,000 of taxes by getting under Northwestern's liberal tax-free charter...
...merger between the University of Chicago, on Chicago's South Side, and Northwestern, on the North Side and farther north in Evanston, would bring under single control some 20,000 students. Undergraduate work would continue on both campuses. Some post-graduate departments would consolidate to the south, some to the north. Economy is a point in the merger plans but not so big a point as certain education policies. Particularly involved is the question of medicine. Last year the University of Chicago hospitals and clinics lost $831,000. Under the merger, Chicago would turn over its practical work...