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Reminiscences of Robert Maynard Hutchins, 1967.

Creator: Hutchins, Robert Maynard, 1899-1977
Project: Individual interviews oral history collection.
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Phys. Desc. :Transcript 110 pages Sound recording 1 reel
Location: Columbia Center for Oral History
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Biographical Note

University president; interviewee d.1977

Scope and Contents

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

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Copyright by The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York, 1975

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