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...forms of American collegiate life to the changed conditions and uncertain responsibilities of modern life and modern endowment funds; her graduates are likely to show less of that restless dissatisfaction with the contemporary university educational process than college graduates of other institutions. And abruptly to break up the traditional pattern of the university into a theoretical scheme of more or less self-contained "quadrangles" seems to some an effort to group men by architecture rather than by the more natural process of association--an artificial solution for fundamental social and educational problems...
...factory system, with its, standardized mechanical processes, or, recently, in more or less remote country districts by people working by hand with simple tools in natural materials in a traditional manner. We know that this charm is due in part to traditional form, for no form or pattern can become traditional unless it is pleasing and well adapted for use: yet another and no less significant reason why these objects are beautiful is that, in consequence of their possessing the quality and liveliness of hand work, they are not only pleasing to the eye and wear well, holding our interest...
...reaches its height in the army barracks. This can only be done by spending much time and money in the arrangement of the furnishing. The House Masters have recognized this fact, but the economies and conveniences of management to be derived from having all-the furniture of a set pattern, as is the case in the Freshman dormitories, form an opposing argument which they cannot too strongly resist...
While the Houses ought not to be in all respects exactly alike, or precisely of the same size, they should in general be formed on a similar pattern. It is intended, therefore, that each should contain two hundred and fifty undergraduates, more or less, about equally divided among the three upper classes. They will be admitted to the House as sophomores, and although a transfer to another House for proper reasons may not be excluded, they will normally make it their home throughout the rest of their college course. They will be required to take, or rather...
Replied President Hutchins: "No man can come to the presidency of the University of Chicago without being awed by the University and its past. . . . We are studying and propose to study problems that do not fit readily into the traditional departmental pattern of a university. . . . What is clear is that we must proceed to give opportunities for cooperation to those who have felt the need of them. We must regard the University as a whole. . . . Comparisons of salaries among universities are irrelevant and harmful. For the question is: can we now get the kind of men we want...