Word: professors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...loudest of voices): What shall we do with the facts? Robert Hutchins got his chance to make the challenge just two years later. At 30 he became the "boy wonder" president of the University of Chicago. Not long after, he invited Adler to come out and be a .professor. "I'm the president of a great university," Hutchins announced to Adler at lunch. "But I haven't thought about education." "Me either," said Mortimer. "I'm a philosopher." The only thoughts he had about education, he went on to say, had come from Columbia's John...
...explanations for that lay in Hutchins himself and in the way he went about his job at Chicago. "I have no idea of revolutionizing it overnight," he announced at the beginning; but he soon seemed to be doing just that. "Why are you in such a hurry?" a professor once asked him. Replied Hutchins: "No successful president ever did anything to a school after his first five years...
Cucumbers & Cheese. "It's not that I know much about education," Hutchins once said just before launching into one of his attacks, "it's that I know nothing else." The son of a Presbyterian preacher1 who was also a professor of homiletics (pulpit oratory), he has been around & about colleges all his life. He spent his boyhood on the campus of Oberlin College, with its "two little red buildings crumbling away upon its corners" and its roads of yellow clay. It was the "hottest, coldest, wettest, flattest part of the state of Ohio," where life revolved about...
...book"), won the Italian Croce di Guerra for being "poisoned by a can of sardines," then enrolled in the Yale Law School ("No case book is a great book"). At 24 he was secretary of Yale University, at 26 a lecturer at Yale Law School, at 28 a full professor and dean...
...returned to Cambridge for his M.A. in 1909 and came back to New Haven for a Ph.D. in 1911. From then until 1915 he was a history instructor. In 1918 he was promoted from assistant professor to professor of history, and in 1922 received the Sterling Professorship. He was appointed Provost in 1927 and Master of Berkeley College...