Word: stringfellows
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Dates: during 1937-1937
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...Visitors & Governors of little St. John's College in Annapolis, Md. That unconventional gesture was President Hutchins' way of showing that he is a good loser. For St. John's had just reached to take from under his nose, in the persons of President-elect Stringfellow Barr and Dean-elect Scott Buchanan, two educators whom Chicago drafted last year from the University of Virginia to help Educator Hutchins with his projected revival of the traditional liberal arts college course. Now Educator Hutchins was willing to help Educators Barr and Buchanan with their projected revival...
...Stringfellow Barr. a stocky, redheaded, well-dressed intellectual who was long one of the University of Virginia's most popular lecturers but is best known as editor of the Virginia Quarterly, St. John's should prove a stimulating challenge. By last week President-elect Barr had rounded up four bright young faculty-men from Chicago and one from Oxford, where he once studied as a Rhodes Scholar. The Barr-Hutchins liberal arts ideal Educator Hutchins described before sailing for a European vacation last week: "St. John's is an excellent place to try out the idea...