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Hutchins was thirty years old when he became Chicago's president in 1929, and implemented wide-ranging and sometimes controversial reforms of the university, including the elimination of varsity football.
Two years later, at the age of 30, he became president of the University of Chicago; he remained at Chicago until 1951, the last six years as chancellor. A controversial administrator, Hutchins reorganized the university’s departments for undergraduate and graduate study into four divisions.
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Compiling a list of candidates to succeed Max Mason after his resignation in 1928, the University of Chicago presidential search committee included Hutchins's name among other college presidents and deans. Although they sought someone young, between 35 and 50, Hutchins, then only 29, was soon dropped from the list.
Even the age issue receded as Swift stressed that Harper too had been a young president at thirty-five, the implication being that Hutchins at thirty was in fact a second coming of Harper, perhaps even better. 22. Hutchins was inaugurated in November 1929, at the onset of the Great Depression.
Compiling a list of candidates to succeed Max Mason after his resignation in 1928, the University of Chicago presidential search committee included Hutchins's name among other college presidents and deans. Although they sought someone young, between 35 and 50, Hutchins, then only 29, was soon dropped from the list.
May 16, 1977 · SANTA BARBARA, Calif., May 15—Robert Maynard Hutchins, founder and president of the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions, died last night at Cottage Hospital. He was 78 years old.
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Hutchins was thirty years old when he became Chicago's president in 1929, and implemented wide-ranging and sometimes controversial reforms of the university, including the elimination of varsity football.
