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...original Baptist University of Chicago first became famed as the first great Rockefeller philanthropy. But in recent years, as everyone knows, it is the gigantic institution over which presides the briskest personality in U. S. education, Robert Maynard ("Bob") Hutchins...
...Brisk Bob Hutchins did not leave his brilliant position as right-hand of Yale's President James Rowland Angell* and go to Chicago just to be feted as a boy wonder. He went to lead the way out of that mediocrity which critics have found to be the chief characteristic of U. S. "higher education." His reforms were radical. But they had barely begun when Depression came to smite down the income of all universities...
Finally, all dopesters were convinced that President Scott, able money-raiser, will be exalted into a chancellorship and brisk Bob Hutchins, as president, will actively direct Chicago's dream of creating "the greatest University centre...
...event of the Harvard-Yale football game in 1929 brought out a rather startling bit of detective work on the part of Cantabrigians, or rather on the part of Bob Lampoon. That was the time when a very valuable eight-foot section of the famous Yale fence mysteriously disappeared from Pachs Studio in New Haven, on the Saturday before the game. It was recovered by its rightful owners, however, on the eve of the classic battle...
...After many after dinner speeches, suddenly one of the editors of the Harvard publication embarked on the subject of the stolen fence. He said that they were all very sorry to hear of the deed and had set their ace of detectives on the trail of the evildoers. Mr. Bob Lampoon himself set out after the perpetrators of the crime and at last was rewarded with success. With a quick flourish of the wrist, he moved back the table cover and showed underneath, the missing property. The Elis cheered, and cheered, and late that night sent it back...