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Assembled at Chapel Hill last week was the third annual Southern Conference on Education, guests of the University of North Carolina. Most of the pedagogs at the gathering were Southerners, but young President Robert Maynard Hutchins of the University of Chicago made the pithiest point, in his discussion of "Utopia University." There, he said, "Hours and residence requirements as criteria for winning college degrees and such time-honored titles as graduate school and junior and senior college" would be supplanted by an institution of higher learning divided into the professional schools and four divisions in art: humanities, social sciences, physical...