The Press: A Reprimand from Teacher

The pot roast at lunch was tender and tasty, but for all the. effect it had on Robert Maynard Hutchins, it might have been fire & brimstone. At the annual National Conference of U.S. Editorial Writers in Louisville, Ky. last week, the University of Chicago's chancellor gave the banqueting journalists hell, with bells on.

Said Hutchins: "I think you are teachers. I did not say you were good teachers . . . The argument that you must be good or you wouldn't have readers is ... like telling the disgusted radio listener that he can turn to three other stations and hear...

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