Word: utopia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pock-marked Sinclair Lewis was born Feb. 7, 1885, in Sauk Center, Minn. His father, a country physician, had migrated from Connecticut, so at the proper age young Sinclair went to Yale. But at the beginning of his fourth year, he deserted college to become janitor for a socialistic Utopia called Helicon Hall which had just been founded in New Jersey by Upton Sinclair, radical novelist. Poor, Sinclair Lewis lived by writing children's verse and squib jokes for magazines until he obtained an assistant editorship on the now defunct monthly Transatlantic Tales. He left that position to seek...
...Utopia...
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...
...Hutchins scored, "hours and residence requirements as criteria for winning college degrees." The five divisions of the University of Utopia he listed as the humanities, social sciences, physical sciences, biological sciences and the college...
Under Dr. Hutchins's plan, a student could enter his "utopia university" when he can show that he is ready to do so irrespective of his years in high school or his grades there. He would remain in college until his general education is complete, irrespective of the time or courses taken...