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Dates: during 1940-1949
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What should be the content of education? Hutchins' answer was simple: there is a kind of knowledge that transcends time & place; there are absolute values such as Truth and Justice, and they can be found by modern man, especially by studying what the great minds of the past had to say about the constant problems of mankind. The purpose of education, he held, is to train minds to be free, not chaotic, and free "because they can understand the order of goods and can achieve them in that order...
...just a good Baptist college) became a first-rank university almost at birth. As its grey, Gothic-style buildings sprang up on Chicago's dreary South Side, notable minds had nocked to it: Philosopher John Dewey, Economist Thorstein Veblen, Archeologist James Henry Breasted. It was a place of exciting research, fired by the spirit of scientific inquiry and by the yeasty pragmatism of John Dewey. "The result is wonderful," exclaimed William James in 1903. "A real school and real thought. Here [at Harvard] we have thought, but no school. At Yale, a school, but no thought. Chicago has both...
...Robert Maynard Hutchins was a complete anomaly in such a place. It was true that the trustees wanted a young man with ideas, but they hardly expected him to advocate a reversal of everything the university had seemed to stand for. To them, he was simply the extraordinary young man who had been made acting dean of the Yale Law School at 28 and had done so well that Yale made him full dean...
...unending search for titles that will make good reading on theater marquees, Hollywood is still hard to satisfy. Among the latest title changes: Where Men Are Men to Fancy Pants; A Mother for May to Father Is a Bachelor; Theodore Dreiser's An American Tragedy to A Place...
...verdict gushes too high. Firbank's light and dexterous hand may have "altered the pace of dialogue for the [contemporary] novel" and his work may represent a "startling technical achievement." But the proper place for his silver cobwebs is in, round, and underneath a closed circle of impalpable esthetes...