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	Robert Hutchins - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Robert Maynard Hutchins (January 17, 1899, Brooklyn, New York – May 17, 1977, Santa Barbara, California) was an educational philosopher, a president (1929-1945) of the University of Chicago and its chancellor (1945-1951).
		Hutchins asserts that students should be exposed to these conflicting ideas so that they may weigh and balance them in their own minds, boiling down the arguments and synthesizing a view of their own.
		Hutchins was able to implement his ideas regarding a two-year, generalist bachelors during his tenure at Chicago, and subsequently had designated those studying in depth in a field as masters students.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Robert_Hutchins (1783 words)

	Hutchins, Robert M(aynard) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Hutchins was active in forming the Committee to Frame a World Constitution (1945), led the Commission on Freedom of the Press (1946), and vigorously defended academic freedom, opposing faculty loyalty oaths in the 1950s.
		The Center was an attempt to approach Hutchins' ideal of "a community of scholars" discussing a wide range of issues--individual freedom, international order, ecological imperatives, the rights of minorities and of women, and the nature of the good life, among others.
		From 1943 until his retirement in 1974 Hutchins was chairman of the Board of Editors of Encyclopædia Britannica and a director for Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc. He was editor in chief of the 54-volume Great Books of the Western World (1952) and coeditor, from 1961, with Mortimer J. Adler, of an annual, The Great Ideas Today.
	www.writing.upenn.edu /~afilreis/50s/hutchins-bio.html (422 words)

	Robert H. Goddard - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Robert Hutchings Goddard (October 5, 1882 – August 10, 1945) was one of the pioneers of modern rocketry.
		Robert Goddard, bundled against the cold New England weather of March 16, 1926, holds the launching frame of his most notable invention — the first liquid-fueled rocket.
		With backing from financier/philanthropist Harry Guggenheim, Goddard eventually relocated to Roswell, New Mexico, long before the area became the center of the UFO craze; where he worked in near isolation for decades, and where a high school was later named after him.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Robert_Goddard_(scientist) (1421 words)

	Mayer's Hutchins (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Hutchins was subjected as a foundation executive, from which the academic setting had somewhat shielded him, are testified to by the painful compromises he was obliged to make from time to time.
		Hutchins stumbled on occasion, it was evident that his heart was usually in the right place — and perhaps even more important, that he had a heart to match the intelligence which permitted him to define with instructive clarity one issue after another of his day.
		Hutchins also knew that the respectable people he had to depend on and in some ways admired — ambitious people with great talents and even greater resources — were not likely to be sensitive to the high-minded concerns that Oberlin College had instilled in him in his youth.
	www.cygneis.com /anastaplo/unpublished/hutchins.htm (1427 words)

	Robert Maynard Hutchins
		Another academic who defied the tenor of the age in American education was Robert Maynard Hutchins, a brilliant administrator who, at the tender age of thirty, was elevated in 1929 to the presidency of the University of Chicago.
		Hutchins, who was to spend the remainder of his life crusading for educational reform, commenced his career at Chicago with the declaration that the learning available in even the most prestigious of American universities was singularly inadequate.
		Hutchins proposed to solve the confusion in American education by incorporating the last 2 years of high school and the first 2 years of traditional college.
	www.bayarea.net /~kins/AboutMe/Hutchins_as_Frame.html (8066 words)

	Edward J. Dodson / Robert M. Hutchins and the University of Chicago
		Hutchins announced to the faculty, students and the public that a primary focus of his administration would be to "secure men if possible who are both distinguished scholars and creative educators.
		Hutchins' long-term objectives included the wholesale restructuring of the country's educational system; his work at the University of Chicago was to establish a model on which wider changes could be introduced.
		If, as Robert Bruce notes, the earlier generation of scientists sought "self-rule for science, support without strings, [and] the time and money to do research without having to account to laymen for its direction or consequences,"[13] their very successes as research scientists moved them along a path of ultimate dependency.
	www.cooperativeindividualism.org /dodson_on_robert_hutchins.html (3455 words)

	Kappa Delta Pi - Educational Honor Society
		Hutchins led a prolific yet tumultuous career as the President of the University of Chicago by never shying away from vocalizing his often unpopular opinions on liberal education.
		Hutchins was the son of William James Hutchins, an evangelical minister with deep roots in education and religion.
		Hutchins became the President of the University of Chicago in 1929 at the age of 30.
	www.kdp.org /about/laureates/laureates/roberthutchins.php (1320 words)

	Robert Maynard Hutchins, page 1
		Although Hutchins brought his own ideas and innovations with him, he came to embody the spirit of the University in a way no one else has since Harper.
		Late in life Hutchins mused about his years in Chicago, "Our idea there was to start a big argument about higher education and keep it alive." The son of a preacher, he portrayed himself as a prophet without honor in his own country, the lone voice of reason in a world of mediocrity.
		Hutchins was educated at Oberlin and Yale, and his speaking abilities were already recognized when he addressed the annual alumni dinner during his senior year.
	www.lib.uchicago.edu /projects/centcat/centcats/pres/presch05_01.html (377 words)

	Harry A. Ashmore / Robert Hutchins and the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions
		Hutchins presided, but rarely felt it necessary to interrupt a tape-recorded conversation that proceeded at its own pace through lunch, and could be resumed the next day if the topic warranted.
		Hutchins concluded that the solution might be to make the "faculty" of the Center so truly autonomous the dialogue would continue on its self-determined way no matter who might hold the title of president.
		That was the architectonic idea that shaped Robert Hutchins' life and thought; he used capital letters when he declared that mankind's goal must be the Civilization of the Dialogue, and insisted that the educational system's mission was to prepare us for it.
	www.cooperativeindividualism.org /ashmore-harry_on-the-center-for-study-of-democratic-instns.html (5582 words)

	Robert Hutchins
		Hutchins was educated at Oberlin College in Ohio, before serving in the military during World War I. He later completed his education at Yale university, graduating in 1921 and earning a law degree in 1925.
		Hutchins believed in order to educate students for freedom, that they must be educated in the liberal arts.
		Robert Hutchins gave hundreds of educational speeches a year, consequently leading the way to a controversial and dramatic reform.
	www.selu.edu /Academics/Faculty/nadams/educ692/Hutchins.html (620 words)

	Almost Wise - James A. Patrick
		Hutchins then spent the remainder of his career perfecting his own education, becoming an example of the very process from which teaching or leadership in any College derives its power and attacking all those sociological, institutional, and intellectual dragons who waited along the way.
		Hutchins’ scheme suggested that, since theology was unavailable to the modern university, metaphysics would be used to supply the curriculum its first principles.
		How understandable this is. When Hutchins wrote that in modernity theology cannot be the crown of the liberal arts curriculum, he clearly meant that in the institutions created in America and Europe since the Enlightenment, giving theology, hence revelation, hence God, the intellectual due that belongs to the highest reality is politically impossible.
	www.ewtn.com /library/Academic/MORE98.HTM (1961 words)

	Commentary Magazine - Hutchins of Chicago (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Though the public still hears from Robert M. Hutchins as head of the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions and perennial critic of the higher vocationalism of our colleges and universities, he is perhaps best known for his years at the helm of the University of Chicago.
		...Hutchins was a permanently controversial figure in American education who managed to stamp his personality and ideas upon the national scene as no other university president has done before or since...
		...Hutchins delivered throughout the 30's (and he has not since added to their message), they have something of the quality that Mencken's Prejudices had: wit, colossal self-confidence, occasional brilliance, but rarely any feeling for the real forces involved...
	www.commentarymagazine.com /Summaries/V38I1P54-1.htm (2013 words)

	20th WCP: Natorp on Social Education: A Paideia for all Ages
		Although Hutchin's programs were adapted for only a short time by the University of Chicago and by a few small liberal arts colleges, his influence, as well as that of American disciples of Natorp and Pestalozzi, still has lasting value, since it is based on the idea that we are all souls in development.
		Hutchins then proceeds to tear into Frederick May Elliot, the then President of Harvard University who, in his view, had sold out to the idea that one subject was as good as another, and replaced the great classics with triviliaty, mediocrity and vocationalism.
		Hutchin's idea, which was identical to Natorp's, was that the aim of higher and of all education was to improve the society.
	www.bu.edu /wcp/Papers/Educ/EducSalt.htm (3717 words)

	1930s --The College as Advocate of Curricular Innovation
		Mortimer Adler goes so far as to argue that Hutchins considered the plan to be a "poor compromise" and an "unmitigated defeat," in large part because it allowed students the opportunity to take departmentally based electives in addition to prescribed general-education courses during their first two years of study.
		Hutchins was convinced that the proper role for the College was to straddle the last two years of high school and the first two years of college (often called the junior college) which, in turn, would necessitate a rather different kind of curriculum than the New Plan represented.
		It is not widely appreciated that the negotiations between Robert Hutchins and President Walter Dill Scott of Northwestern University over the possible merger of the two universities (as a new "The Chicago Universities on the Foundation of North- western University and the University of Chicago"), which Hutchins initiated in May 1933, were actually quite serious.
	www.uchicago.edu /docs/education/continuity-change/view2b.html (2719 words)

	Fund for the Republic Archives \| Seeley G. Mudd Manuscript Library (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Hutchins sent a memorandum to the board on May 4, 1956 recommending that the Board authorize an advisory committee to examine the feasibility and desirability of establishing an institute or council for the study of the theory and practice of freedom.
		Hutchins asked the board at its September 12 meeting for the authority to prepare a plan for implementing the proposal so that at its November meeting the board could determine its practicability and effect on the Fund's activities.
		Hutchins was permitted, with the advice of the Advisory Committee and temporary consultants, to reexamine the area of the Fund's concern.
	libweb.princeton.edu /libraries/firestone/rbsc/finding_aids/ffr (8402 words)

	New York Times Magazine, March 7, 1937, pp
		The unity and simplicity of the curriculum Dr. Hutchins proposes for American youth between the ages of 16 and 20 are largely deceptive.
		Those colleges that are free from State control for the most part seek to stimulate interest in in religion; and all of them see in the varied activities of the campus the opportunity for training in citizenship and life in a civilized community.
		If, as we agree, the student is to be trained to understand the past and his fellow-men and to deal intelligently with the future, his development on the physical, moral, spiritual, esthetic and social sides as well as the intellectual is an essential part of this training.
	www.ditext.com /hutchins/times37.html (2719 words)

	Commentary Magazine - The Sad Story of the Boy Wonder (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		...Hutchins was appointed full professor and for two short terms was called acting dean, after which the "acting" was dropped from the title...
		...Hutchins was also the last of the strong university presidents, in the line and tradition of Charles W. Eliot of Harvard, Daniel Coit Gilman of Johns Hopkins, Nicholas Murray Butler of Columbia, an educational innovator, reformer, leader...
		...Hutchins was himself always an excellent student, but, one gathers, of the quick-study kind: quick to grasp, quick to execute, quick to move on...
	www.commentarymagazine.com /Summaries/V89I3P46-1.htm (6913 words)

	Robert Maynard Hutchins, page 3
		Lawrence A. Kimpton, Vesta Hutchins, Marcia Kimpton, and Robert M. Hutchins at the inauguration dinner for Chancellor Kimpton, October 18, 1951.
		While Hutchins was best known for his statements on undergraduate education, one of his most enduring reforms at the University was the organization of the graduate departments into the four academic divisions of the biological sciences, humanities, physical sciences, and social sciences, with a separate College which unified all undergraduate work under one dean.
		Hutchins heaped scorn upon schools which received more press coverage for their sports teams than for their educational programs, and a run of disastrous seasons gave him the trustee support he needed to drop football in 1939.
	www.lib.uchicago.edu /projects/centcat/centcats/pres/presch05_03.html (273 words)

	Hutchins History page 2
		In addition, Robert Maynard Hutchins represented the intellectual tradition associated with Socrates which we sought to embody in our School of Liberal Studies.
		The poet and the physicist had sided on a totally unstructured approach and their positions with Hutchins were not renewed.
		The previous history is former student Kelly Wheaton's abstraction of Warren Olson's The Origin and Birth of The Hutchins School of Liberal Studies.
	www.sonoma.edu /hutchins/abouthutchins/history2.html (205 words)

	Reader's Companion to American History - -HUTCHINS, ROBERT MAYNARD (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Hutchins, born to a line of college-trained clergymen, excelled in his studies at Oberlin College and Yale.
		Outspoken on many public issues and liberal in his politics, Hutchins was rumored to be in line for several New Deal posts in the late 1930s.
		Hutchins left Chicago in 1951 and with Ford Foundation support established the Fund for the Republic in 1954 and, as its operating arm, the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions in Montecito, California, in 1959.
	college.hmco.com /history/readerscomp/rcah/html/rc_044100_hutchinsrobe.htm (498 words)

	The Hutchins Commission (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Luce and Hutchins feared low journalism--newspapers and the so-called "pulp press" of mass culture and society--was inching toward government intervention due to rapidly increasing concentration of media power in fewer and fewer hands, the failure of those few to provide adequate service, and the perception of irresponsible behavior by journalists and media owners.
		Hutchins, in essence, brought together a group of middlebrow technocrats and cultural guardians to determine whether the libertarian paradigm of an "inalienable" and "natural" right of a free press needed adjustment (3).
		Hutchins Commissioners and proponents of public journalism were not and are not suffering delusions or paranoia nor acting from misguided intentions; in fact, they were and are following behavioral patterns that mirrored those of their cohorts in the dominant social and cultural classes.
	mtprof.msun.edu /Fall1997/Blevins.html (4581 words)

	Robert M. Hutchins -- Britannica Student Encyclopedia
		Some of the 20th century's boldest and most influential educational reforms were undertaken by Robert M. Hutchins during his tenure as president of the University of Chicago.
		The educator Robert M. Hutchins (q.v.) organized the centre and headed it and its parent corporation, the Fund for the Republic (chartered in New York in 1952), for 25 years.
		Hutchins, Robert M. Some of the 20th century's boldest and most influential educational reforms were undertaken by Robert M. Hutchins during his tenure as president of the University of Chicago.
	www.britannica.com /ebi/article-9274998?&query=robert (771 words)

	Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions Audio Archive
		Robert M. Hutchins is joined by Admiral Hyman Rickover and Barnard College president Rosemary Park in an analysis of the...
		Robert M. Hutchins leads a discussion among the Center staff on the Supreme Court ruling in Sullivan v.
		Robert M.Hutchins addresses the convocation in his role as president of the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions, followed...
	www.library.ucsb.edu /speccoll/csdi/csdihutchins.html (720 words)

	Robert Blake Murder Case: TVparty!
		Young Robert Blake made seven to twelve films a year for eight years straight, but, all during that time, the youngster led a desperate life - the victim of a drunken, violent stepfather who would beat him and his brother, sister, and mother mercilessly at night.
		In 1963, Robert Blake was cast as a regular on The Richard Boone Show, a one-hour anthology.
		To many observers, Robert Blake's confrontational nature and admitted substance abuse led to the early demise of the series.
	www.tvparty.com /mysblake.html (1195 words)

	CBN NEWS - Focus- 'Crunchy Cons' Value Family and Family (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		But in the 1980s, Hutchins gave up his six-figure paycheck as a defense contractor in Washington, D.C., because he felt God starting to call him to dedicate his life to faith, family, and a farm.
		Hutchins remarked, "The assault on godly values, Christian values, is just getting more and more intense each year, and there's no reason to assault your children with that before they're adults and ready to deal with it."
		Hutchins says people need to wrench their families free of materialist, mediocre living.
	www.cbn.com /cbnnews/usnews/060221a.asp (1299 words)

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