Robert M. Hutchins Quotes
The three major administrative problems on a campus are sex for the students, athletics for the alumni, and parking for the faculty.
Metternich called a conference of the heads of all the German states to deal with what they perceived as a dangerous liberalism enveloping German society. Metternich did not personally draft all the resolutions but he controlled the conclave and all the resolutions which are usually ascribed to him.
At the time a department store was considered a large but mediocre retail establishment with a tendency to try and sell everything rather than specialize in one or two areas like the finest shops. Flexner observed that the American universities were then very broad but we’re not centers of intellectual excellence. The result was that he established the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton. See {634254}.
Robert Maynard Hutchins 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). He was the husband of novelist Maude Hutchins. Although his father and grandfather were both Presbyterian ministers, Hutchins became one of the most influential members of the school of secular perennialism.
