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Robert Maynard Hutchins
Robert Maynard Hutchins 1899-1977, American educator, b. Brooklyn, N.Y., studied at Oberlin College, grad. Yale, 1921, taught in the Yale law school (1925-27), and served as dean (1927-29). He became president of the Univ. of Chicago in 1929 at the age of 30 and held that position until 1945; he se... Read more
liberal arts
liberal arts term originally used to designate the arts or studies suited to freemen. It was applied in the Middle Ages to seven branches of learning, the trivium of grammar, logic, and rhetoric, and the quadrivium of arithmetic, geometry, astronomy, and music. The study of the trivium led to the B... Read more

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Hutchins, Robert (1899–1977)
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Education HUTCHINS, ROBERT (1899 – 1977) A major...American higher education, Robert Maynard Hutchins wrote, spoke about, and influenced public...iconoclastic and unpopular points of view. Hutchins, born in Brooklyn, New York, moved...
Robert Maynard Hutchins
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography Robert Maynard Hutchins Reform-minded educator Robert Maynard Hutchins (1899-1977) aroused controversy over his views...retirement in 1974, three years before his death in 1977, Hutchins was chairman of the Board of Editors of Encyclopaedia...
Thomas Hutchins
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition Thomas Hutchins 1730-89, American frontiersman, surveyor, and geographer, b. Monmouth...British army and in London at the opening of the American Revolution, Hutchins refused to bear arms against the Revolutionaries and was imprisoned and...
Hutchins, Robert Maynard
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Literature Hutchins, Robert Maynard (1899–1977), graduated from Yale (1921) and was successively secretary of the university, professor...
Hapgood, Hutchins
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Literature Hapgood, Hutchins (1869–1944), born in Chicago, graduated from Harvard (1892), and was a journalist in Chicago and New York...
University of Chicago
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Education ...Its fifth president, Robert Maynard Hutchins, inaugurated in 1929, like Harper before...lasting imprint on Chicago and the nation. Hutchins reduced the dominance of applied science...intellectual discourse. Not only did Hutchins buck the dominant trends in philosophy...
Herndon, Alonzo Franklin
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...post with a highly regarded local barber. William Dougherty Hutchins had been a free black before the war, and his shop was a busy...partnership, but it was later dissolved—perhaps due to Hutchins's financial setbacks, which taught Herndon to always be...
Berea College
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Education ...labor was continued during the term of President William James Hutchins, who served Berea from 1920 to 1939. Building on its commitment...Guided by Berea's motto, "To Promote the Cause of Christ," Hutchins sought to prepare mountain leaders for Christian citizenship...
Schwab, Joseph (1909–1988)
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Education ...schooling. His early work through the 1940s was part of Robert Hutchins's efforts to create an undergraduate curriculum of general...sciences staff. Scholarly Work In the 1950s and 1960s, as the "Hutchins College" period ended, Schwab turned his attention to wider...
Adler, Mortimer J(erome)
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Literature ...at the University of Chicago (1930–52) during Hutchins's administration. His writings of this period include his...Thomists (1940), and A Dialectic of Morals (1941). With Hutchins he edited Great Books of the Western World (54 vols., 1952...

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University of Chicago
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...1928 the trustees appointed Robert M. Hutchins to the presidency (1929 –...his high intelligence and quick wit, Hutchins reorganized the university's college...an entirely great books curriculum. Hutchins faced much faculty opposition, but every...
Great Books Programs
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...Mortimer Adler, with President Robert M. Hutchins of the University of Chicago, began...remain a key part of core curricula. Hutchins and Adler created a program for adults...rejuvenating interest in discussion groups. Hutchins and Adler's legacy continued through...
Encyclopedias
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...of Chicago, purchased Britannica in 1941 and named the university's president, Robert Maynard Hutchins, as editorial board chairman. Hutchins brought with him the philosopher Mortimer J. Adler, and under Adler's direction the fifteenth...
Cartography
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...after the Revolution with proposals by William Tatham, Thomas Hutchins, Simeon De Witt, and other topographers and geographers who...Under Erskine and his successors, Simeon De Witt and Thomas Hutchins, more than 130 manuscript maps were prepared. From these...
Cooper, Jackie
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers ...Ninth Avenue ) (Nigh) (as Jimmy); Two Bright Boys (Santley) (as Roy O'Donnell); The Big Guy (Lubin) (as Timmy Hutchins); What a Life! (Reed) (as Henry Aldrich) 1940 Gallant Sons (Seitz) (as Byron "By" Newbold); The Return of Frank...
Pennant, Thomas
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography ...also had a talent for observation and organization. He was able to combine his own observations with information from Thomas Hutchins, Ashton Blackburn, Alexander Garden, Benjamin Smith Barton, and Peter Simon Pallas, and thus to produce his classic work...
Cusack, Cyril
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers ...x2014;A Tribute (Fleischmann—doc) (as narrator, with others) 1951 The Blue Veil (Bernhardt) (as Frank Hutchins); The Secret of Convict Lake (Michael Gordon) (as Limey); Soldiers Three (Garnett) (as Pvt. Dennis Malloy) 1953...
Epstein, Sir Jacob
Book article from: A Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Art ...x2018;my old master'. In 1902, on the proceeds of his illustrations for The Spirit of the Ghetto by the journalist Hutchins Hapgood, Epstein moved to Paris. There he studied at the École des Beaux-Arts and the Académie Julian...
Underwater Demolition Teams
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...Fawcett, Bill, ed. Hunters and Shooters: An Oral History of the U.S. Navy Seals in Vietnam. New York: Morrow, 1995. Hutchins, Joel. Swimmers among the Trees: SEAL Operations in the Vietnam War. Novato, Calif.: Presidio, 1996. Welham, Michael...
Geographer's Line
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History GEOGRAPHER'S LINE GEOGRAPHER'S LINE was established by Thomas Hutchins, geographer of the United States, according to the Ordinance of 1785. The line was to begin at the point at which the Pennsylvania...

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Hutchins, engine of greatness
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times; 11/24/1991; ; 700+ words ; Robert M. Hutchins Portrait of an Educator. By Mary Ann...University of Chicago Press. $24.95. Hutchins' University By William McNeill. University...From 1929 to 1950, Robert Maynard Hutchins was a great Chicago citizen and a brilliant...
Hutchins still hoping to realize potential
Newspaper article from: Lancaster New Era Lancaster, PA; 4/21/2005; ; 700+ words ; HOMESTEAD, Fla. - Norm Hutchins still hears it every once in a while...growing up in Yonkers, N.Y., Hutchins was a prep sports legend. He starred...time to choose his game for life, Hutchins went with baseball. He had good reasons...
Hutchins Rebuilding Troubled State Police
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 5/9/2004; ; 700+ words ; Col. Thomas E. "Tim" Hutchins retired from the Maryland State Police...House. Or so he thought. Just after Hutchins began his third term as a state delegate...Ehrlich Jr. (R). In February 2003 Hutchins was asked to be the acting secretary...
Hutchins Motorsports.(Power Profile)(Company Profile)
Magazine article from: Powersports Business; 8/16/2004; ; 700+ words ; ...365-6311 www.hutchinshd.com OWNER Dick Hutchins BUSINESS PROFILE Hutchins Motorsports was founded in 1982 in high-desert...base, from which many combat troops go to Iraq. Hutchins owned several dealerships in Los Angeles, but...
Hutchins' fast track into pharmacies.(HEADLINER)(Traver Hutchins)
Magazine article from: Medical Marketing & Media; 6/1/2005; ; 700+ words ; Traver Hutchins is a fast driver of cars and an even...health professional networks," says Hutchins, of the unnamed firm. "This allows...re working on the other six," notes Hutchins. "We'll have them soon." Each publication...
Hutchins pilots First International into the black. (Pat Hutchins) (company profile)
Magazine article from: San Diego Business Journal; 1/18/1988; ; 700+ words ; Hutchins pilots First International into the black...By RANDALL PATNODE In 1952, when Pat Hutchins graduated from Grandview High School in...the right stuff" would have required Hutchins to take control of a powerful machine...
Hutchins made a difference
Newspaper article from: The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel; 2/27/1998; ; 700+ words ; ...survived a series of heart seizures, Aaron Hutchins has displayed survival instincts. He...trouble only a three-point shot away. Hutchins avoided following in the footsteps of...eventually landed in jail. At a young age, Hutchins discovered basketball and he has used...
Carleen Hutchins; devised new system to make violins, 98
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 8/15/2009; ; 700+ words ; ...the mid-20th century, when Carleen Hutchins was at the height of her career, it...and 18th- century masters. But Mrs. Hutchins did something more unusual still. Working...acoustically matched instruments, Mrs. Hutchins's violin family spans more than seven...
National Guard's Hutchins goes to state police
Newspaper article from: Capital (Annapolis); 6/28/2004; 700+ words ; ...military, state police Col. Thomas Hutchins is leaving the National Guard soon to...last Huey ride the other day," Col. Hutchins, a Vietnam veteran said last week while...far as soldier issues," said Col. Hutchins, said in a telephone interview from...
Roger A. Hutchins, a hard-working, frugal, 'great dad'
Newspaper article from: Portland Press Herald (Maine); 9/16/2009; ; 700 words ; ...Herald (Maine) 09-16-2009 Roger A. Hutchins, a hard-working, frugal, 'great...Obituary SOUTH PORTLAND -- Roger A. Hutchins always emphasized education and a good...He was a great dad," said Mr. Hutchins' son Gary Hutchins. "He brought us...