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...century. More individualistic than the Catholic pronunciamento their view is nevertheless not primarily a defense of the right of the individual, but rather an answer to a problem of society as a whole. The industrial age has brought about a condition absolutely reversed from the categorical scheme of an Utopia; it works a totally unnecessary hardship on the poorer classes...
...flighty theorist is 31-year-old President Robert Maynard Hutchins of the University of Chicago. No flight of fancy was his speech to southern pedagogs three weeks ago at Chapel Hill, N. C. on a "University of Utopia" where "hours and residence requirements as criteria for winning college degrees" would be scrapped (TIME, Nov. 10). President Hutchins was hinting at, preparing pedagogs for the formal announcement of something which he and his predecessor Dr. Max Mason and the Chicago faculty had discussed for several years...
...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...
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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...