Word: hutchins
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Despite the ominous prediction of Robert Maynard Hutchins that the Harvard national scholarships "will be unsuccessful", President Conant not only has shown that he intends to stay in this poker game of educational policy, but yesterday stacked six more fat chips on the strength of his hand. Next September, instead of only ten prize scholarships to draw entering Freshmen of outstanding ability principally from the Middle West, there will be sixteen reaching out to the Far West and deep South. In President Conant's plan, as compared to the relatively romantic and revolutionary proposals of Hutchin's recent essay...
...their Familia Volano, a big black-&-silver Sikorsky amphibian, the Hutchin-sons-George, 30, Blanche, 28, Kathryn, 8, Janet Lee, 6-and a crew of four had hopped by easy stages to Labrador (TIME, Sept. 5), thence across Davis Strait to Greenland and down the coast to Julian-ehaab. Hopping off from there to the booming salute of a Danish warship, Pilot Hutchinson skirted the southern tip of the great island, headed north for Angmagsa-lik. His itinerary called for successive hops to Iceland, the Faroe Islands, England, Rome...