Robert Maynard Hutchins

How about looking seriously at what the University of Chicago's Robert Maynard Hutchins did in 1939?

Penn State's Trustees Are Responding Responsibly 2011

After Robert Maynard Hutchins, another young Yale professor, took over the presidency in 1929, Chicago undergraduates were required to take the Great Books program.

Showing Its Age 2008

Robert Maynard Hutchins, the chancellor of the University of Chicago, saw the atomic bomb as heralding “the good news of damnation”—the ultimate wake-up call—that would frighten the leaders of the world into taking “those positive steps necessary to the creation of a world society.”

The Great Experiment Strobe Talbott 2008

The project was the brainchild of two academics, Mortimer Adler and Robert Maynard Hutchins.

Lessons From the Great Books Generation 2008

"The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush," said Robert Maynard Hutchins, president of the University of Chicago during the second quarter of the 20th Century, creator of the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions, and chair of an audacious undertaking in 1947 called The Committee to Frame a World Constitution.

Tad Daley: Backyard Democracy 2008

You know, some of his friends in that movement were people like Robert Maynard Hutchins, the head of the University of Chicago and a prominent liberal.

Before the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus 2001

The legendary Robert Maynard Hutchins of the University of Chicago once said that Father Hesburgh's improvements at Notre Dame constituted, and I quote, "one of the most spectacular developments in higher education in the last 25 years."

Remarks By President At Gold Medal Ceremony ITY National Archives 2000

In Judaism, I pass over Philo of Alexandria to mention that while I was a student at the University of Chicago, Robert Maynard Hutchins and Mortimer Adler were putting together their list of the hundred great books that was to evolve into the Great Books Program.

Words and Things Smith, Huston 1998

Robert Maynard Hutchins together, the president of the university.

Personal History 1997

The president of the University of Chicago then was a fellow named Robert Maynard Hutchins, who believed that there were, you know, a set of great books, classic writings over the centuries that educated men and women ought to be familiar with, and that, by reading those books and subjecting them to critical analysis in the classroom, you could learn to read anything critically and skeptically.

The System: The American Way of Politics at the Breaking Point 1996