Hutchins Quotes

I do believe that his given name is something odd. Peregrine, Penrose- Piers, that's it." "He sounds like a dock." Lord Sundron put in. "Mrs. Hutchins called me a light frigate this morning," Linnet said "a dock might be just the thing for me. (Eloisa James)
It's all PR,” said Hutchins. "If we ever produced a person who was unrelentingly honest, everybody would want him dead. View quote
Jack McDevitt
In 1933-34, I took a full-blown college course on the University of Chicago campus. This was part of an experiment by President Hutchins to see whether combining the last two years of high school with the first two years of college might make a more rigorous curriculum possible for what he called "General Education." This he hoped might provide a rational, philosophical guide to adult life and citizenship, replacing the vanished religious certainties he had grown up to reject-and regret. View quote
William H. McNeill
As a result of its generous stand [Robert Maynard Hutchins' controversial policy of admitting students after their second year of high-school], the University of Chicago's undergraduate college acts as the greatest magnet for neurotic juveniles since the Children's Crusade, with Robert Maynard Hutchins...playing the role of Stephen the Shepherd Boy. View quote
A. J. Liebling