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The Idea of a University
Slesinger, Donald | October 24, 1936 issue

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This article focuses on the book "The Higher Learning in America," by Robert Hutchins. In this book Hutchins proposes a sound general education in a college which starts at the present junior year in high school and ends with the present sophomore year in college and a university consisting of three faculties concerned with the fundamental problems of metaphysics, natural science and social science. Clustered about his university would be research and technical institutes with staffs of their own, only those research and technical professors who are also studying the fundamental problems of the three faculties holding university appointments.

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HIGHER Learning in America, The (Book); EDUCATION, Higher -- United States; HUTCHINS, Robert; COLLEGE teachers; UNIVERSITIES & colleges; UNITED States
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