Last January, Robert Maynard Hutchins was 30. Last week he was made President of the University of Chicago. Going from Yale, where he is Dean of the Law School, he will duplicate and improve upon the feat of Chicago's first President, William Rainey Harper, who made the same journey for the same purpose at the age of 35.
From Yale's President James Rowland Angell, Dean Hutchins should receive special parting blessings. Dr. Angell was himself Acting President of Chicago (1918-19) before he went eastward to New Haven.
A normal prodigy, neatly dressed in New...
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