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Robert Maynard Hutchins (January 17, 1899 – May 14, 1977) was an American educational philosopher. He was president (1929–1945) and chancellor (1945–1951) of the University of Chicago, and earlier dean of Yale Law School (1927–1929). [1] His first wife was the novelist Maude Hutchins.
Robert Maynard Hutchins was an American educator and university and foundation president, who criticized overspecialization and sought to balance the college curriculum and to maintain the Western intellectual tradition.
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Perhaps the most controversial chapter in the book explores the career of Robert Maynard Hutchins, who next to Harper was Chicago’s most important President in the Twentieth Century.
Robert Maynard Hutchins: A Memoir. Berkeley: University of California Press, c1993 1993. http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/ft4w10061d/ To Ms. Baby—"My name is Jane"—Mayer, without whom neither I, nor this book, nor the world would be. FOREWORD. They were a couple of naturals, Robert Hutchins and Milton Mayer.
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.
hutchins, robert (1899 – 1977) A major voice for general education in American higher education, Robert Maynard Hutchins wrote, spoke about, and influenced public policy during his almost fifty years as teacher, educator, and administrator.
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William Rainey Harper brought the University of Chicago into being, giving it form and life and mission. But it is the legacy of Robert Maynard Hutchins which is still avidly discussed and debated. 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.
