The reminiscences of Robert M. Hutchins

by Robert Maynard Hutchins, Donald McDonald, Columbia University. Oral History Research Office

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University president. Topics include: election as President of University of Chicago, 1929; concept of a university; relationships with faculty, students, trustees, alumni, and the general public; experiments: Great Books courses, divisions, liberal arts college; professional schools and the university; Rush Medical College; attacks on University of Chicago program; effect of World War II nuclear research; Encyclopedia Britannica; General Robert E. Wood; William Benton.